Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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