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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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" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

" I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. "

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" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "

" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" 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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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "

" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

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