Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKClaude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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