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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."

"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
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"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."

"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."

"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me."

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well."

"It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough."

"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."

"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene."

"I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway."
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