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There Is A Need For Aloneness, Which I Don't Think Most People Realise For An Actor. It's Almost Having Certain Kinds Of Secrets For Yourself That You'll Let The Whole World In On Only For A Moment, When You're Acting. But Everybody Is Always Tugging At You. They'd All Like Sort Of A Chunk Of You.

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Marilyn Monroe

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There Is A Need For Aloneness, Which I Don't Think Most People Realise For An Actor. It's Almost Having Certain Kinds Of Secrets For Yourself That You'll Let The Whole World In On Only For A Moment, When You're Acting. But Everybody Is Always Tugging At You. They'd All Like Sort Of A Chunk Of You.

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