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" I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha! "
Norman Lloyd
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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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" If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English. "
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" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "
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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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" 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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" With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it. "
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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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" People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people. "
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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 you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. "
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" I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened. "
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