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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."
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"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
Dream
"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."
Actor
"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
Acting
"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
Work
"I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden."
Family
"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home."
Family
"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."
Actor
"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."
Work
"Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional."
Language
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
Forgiveness
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