My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESWorking is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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