Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

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I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

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