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• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and…
• In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
• There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
• Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
• I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
• Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
• When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half…
• Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time…
• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
• Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier…

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