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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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"I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case."

"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."

"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."

"I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make."

"You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost."

"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"

"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."
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