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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."

"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."

"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."

"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."

"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."

"I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans."

"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
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