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"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett."
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
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"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."
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"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."
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"I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities."
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"You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading."
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"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
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"I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life."
Life

"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."
Society

"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."
People

"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."
Family

"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."
Actor

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
Science

"I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way."
Life

"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."
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"I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way."
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