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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."
"Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end."
"I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke."
"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."
"I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy."
"Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore."
"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies."
"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!"
"I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen."
"I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment."
"People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas."
"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."
"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."
"We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."
"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
"Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life."
"The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents."
"The basic and essential human is the woman."
"Gluttony is not a secret vice."
"Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it."