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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Orson Welles

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World

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