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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
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
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait

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