"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

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"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

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"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish Actress

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

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"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."

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"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

Change

"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."

Diet

"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."

Film

"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."

Feelings

"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time."

Time

"So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'"

Thought

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

Food

"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."

Life

"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."

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"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."

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