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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."

"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."

"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."

"I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."

"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."

"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."

"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."

"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."

"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."
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