I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I always take the audience into account.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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