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"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."
"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."
"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."
"It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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