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| 1. | A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and I don't think there is anything to be offended at. |
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| 2. | Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too. |
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| 3. | I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. |
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| 4. | I steered clear of all those political intrigues, particularly when you're having to play a character. So I have to shut my eyes and ears to that. |
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| 5. | I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. |
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| 6. | I was going to do Volpone, because I want to try all the outrageous, funny clown parts. It's hopeless, it's too unwieldy. It doesn't work. |
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| 7. | I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. |
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| 8. | I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. |
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| 9. | I've written about the early Montreal days, which I knew very well. I knew every bar-there were about 345 of them-so I have some damn good stories to tell. |
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| 10. | In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write. |
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| 11. | It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's. |
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| 12. | It is so fashionable-this topic. People are dropping like flies as we speak. I think it will help scare people away from cigarettes. |
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| 13. | Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. |
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| 14. | My publisher in New York-Knopf, which is pretty damn good-keeps telling me, Get out of Canada as fast as you can. |
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| 15. | Oh, all right, I'll do King Lear. |
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| 16. | The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head. |
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| 17. | The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. |
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| 18. | The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play. |
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| 19. | They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop. |
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| 20. | Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. |
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