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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets."
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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation."

"I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately."

"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."

"This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested."

"My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!"

"My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once."
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