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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."

"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."
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