I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
ORSON WELLESParis 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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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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