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"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"I'd love to try my hand at something else."
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"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
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"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
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"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."
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"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
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"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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"Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing."
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