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" I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that. "
Norman Lloyd
Used
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" I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.' "
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" If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English. "
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" I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents. "
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" You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to. "
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" My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York. "
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" There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me. "
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" The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television. "
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History
Air
" There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body. "
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" When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world. "
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Think
" You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts. "
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You
Things
People
" We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life. "
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Best
Life
" I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people. "
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Communication
Always
People
" I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha! "
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Pure
Spirit
" Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world. "
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Know
Story
" Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good? "
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Everyone
About
Good
" You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt. "
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" I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show. "
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Never
Experience
Better
" I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it. "
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Family
Time
Loved
" Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great. "
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Loved
Dear
Karl
" Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down. "
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Down
Feeling
Strong
" An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them. "
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Stale
Grow
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" The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were very small. But you could do anything. You see, a donut was ten cents. A cup of coffee was a nickel. That was lunch, with an apple. And I would be playing a lead on a Broadway show on that kind of diet. "
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Coffee
Small
" The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives. "
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Money
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" I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner. "
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Eat
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" I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out. "
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" I knew a lot of people who were beaten by the Depression, but there was still a feeling of positiveness among people: everyone thought it's got to get better. We were all trying to get the country back on its feet. There was a feeling that you could do anything, and this was certainly very true in the theater. "
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