My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

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So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.

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My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

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I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

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One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

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It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.

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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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