Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Ideas come from everything.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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’m not much into rear window ethics.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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