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" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "

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

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" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "

" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "

" I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. "

" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

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" 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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" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

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" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "

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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. "

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

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