If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
ORSON WELLESPopularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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