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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
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"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."

"Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel."

"A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face."
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"The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."

"I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running."

"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become."

"The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text."

"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."
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