If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.