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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself

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