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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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 can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
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

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

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