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"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
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"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."
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"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."
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"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."
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"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
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"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."
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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
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"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."
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"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
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"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."
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"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
Act
"I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions."
Time
"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
Funny
"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."
Comedy
"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."
Museums
"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
Boss
"A career in the theatre demands so much commitment."
Career
"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy."
Swearing
"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage."
Love
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