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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Cut Funny Myself Perfection
I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Body Film Men
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Deal Reward
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama Life Writing
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Best Man Myself
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Men Myself Young
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Life Love Myself
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.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Character Himself Motivational
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Emotion Function Ourselves

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