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"That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
Life
"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."
Mother
"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."
Woman
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
Comedy
"It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people."
Age
"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did."
People
"I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that."
People
"I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man."
Man
"My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want."
Time
"I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard."
Men
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