Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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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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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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