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"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."
"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."
"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."
"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."
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