When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLESPopularity 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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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