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.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, 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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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