LEAVING A DOLL'S HOUSE
Claire Bloom
In fact, my mother always saw to it that I kept a very level head, and didn't let the success I had that night, or on any subsequent occasion, affect me in any profound way. Not that we didn't both get tremendous pleasure from my early achievements; it was simply that the danger of taking oneself too seriously or expecting that life could possibly continue in this exalted sphere was not being the least realistic, and only asking for pain and disappointment later in life.

During filming he told me more than once that to wake up and find Elizabeth on his pillow was like having Christmas every morning--

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