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"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
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"I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty."
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"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."
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"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."
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"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."
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"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
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"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
Freedom
"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
Lie
"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
Hope
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
Reality
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
Work
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
Film
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
Fun
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
Control
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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