Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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