"I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does."
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"A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections."
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"I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it]."
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"I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities."
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"To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with."
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"Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting."
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"Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people."
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"Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?"
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"I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal."
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"Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye."
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"Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!"
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"I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share."
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"I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep."
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"What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?"
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"Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind."
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"I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it."
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"I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss."
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"Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know."
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"Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood."
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"You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train."
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