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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
- Citrus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
- Realist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020