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"I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep."
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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."

"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."
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"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
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