Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Popularity 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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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