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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
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"When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible."
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"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
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"I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
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"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."
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"Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes."
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"His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!"
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"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
Mother
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
Mother
"I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."
Home
"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes."
Eye
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
School
"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
Family
"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
Elderly
"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."
Thought
"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
Love
"People always like things that seem exotic."
People
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