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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"

"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."

"Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed."

"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
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