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"And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

"You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him."

"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."

"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."

"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."

"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
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