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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Orson Welles

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare

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