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"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
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"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
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"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
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"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
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"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth."
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"I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles."
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"A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen."
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"People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films."
People

"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
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"I want to be an actress, not a personality."
Personality

"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."
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"Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are."
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