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Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

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We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

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Have a very good reason for everything you do.

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I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

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Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 22nd, 1907

Died: July 11th, 1989

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