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" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "

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" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "

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" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

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" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "

" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "

" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

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

" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "

" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "

" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

" 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. "

" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "

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" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. "

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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. "

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" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "