Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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