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The Humility To Prepare And The Self-confidence To Bring It Off.

[on Whether He Harbored Any Resentment At His Forced Retirement From The Stage After He Was Fired By Britain's National Theater] I Should Be Soaring Away With My Head Tilted Slightly Toward The Gods, Feeding On The Caviar Of Shakespeare... An Actor Must Act.

You Must Have - Besides Intuition And Sensitivity - A Cutting Edge That Allows You To Reach What You Need. Also, You Have To Know Life - Bastards Included - And It Takes A Bit Of One To Know One, Don't You Think?

In Spite Of A Heavy Disguise, A Few Days' Growth On My Face, Dark Glasses, A Beret And One Of William's Jackets That Fitted Me Not At All, As I Emerged From A Hotel In Lecce, A Young Fisherman Pointed Me Out To His Friends And Said "lavrenche Olivaire." It Was Not All That Amazing; If You're Not Known In Italy, You're Not Known Anywhere.

Have A Very Good Reason For Everything You Do.