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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.
- Cult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, the worst films become cult films.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
- Marilyn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.
- Loves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
- Fearlessness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020