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"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
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"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."

"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."

"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."

"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."

"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
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"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."


"Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."


"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."


"My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American."


"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."


"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."


"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
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