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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very glamorous. She was very beautiful, and she had a lot of friends; she was fun and loved to drink.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.'
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we did 'The Last Picture Show,' the whole cast was unknowns, and we all got careers from it. Well, I don't think this could be done now.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's reflected in the scripts they buy and the work that gets made.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to work with my friend Al Pacino.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to support an actress the way he backed and supported me. He even asked me if I wanted to direct the film, which I didn't feel prepared to at that point.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always learning and trying new things. When you stop learning, you start dying.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020