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I go to see plays all the tim...

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

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I don't like losing the words...

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

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You get attached to the way y...

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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Evan Handler's new book is si...

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

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Writers feel like a middleman...

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

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Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, b...

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

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I don't like dating or just l...

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

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[When you write a play] you w...

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

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When its 100 degrees in New Y...

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

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I understand. You work very h...

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

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I firmly believe that if you ...

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

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Nathan Lane always wanted to ...

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

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Everyone thinks they can writ...

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

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You must realize that honorar...

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

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If no one ever took risks, Mi...

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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If you can go through life wi...

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

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Sudden money is going from ze...

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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I love living. I have some pr...

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

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Gee, what a terrific party. L...

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

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Money brings some happiness. ...

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....