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"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."

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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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