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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
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"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
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"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday."
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"They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day."
Day
"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
Audience
"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
Idea
"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
Birthday
"It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether."
Love
"I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one."
Respect
"My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with."
Family
"You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear."
Fear
"We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves."
Emotional
"I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show."
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