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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."

"I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star."

"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."


"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."


"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."


"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."


"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."


"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."


"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."
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