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"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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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."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"I've always been crazy for the American songbook."
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"When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel."
Purpose
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."
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"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong."
Idea
"I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like."
Kiss
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
Cliches
"Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties."
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"Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them."
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"It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends."
Men
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
Art
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
World
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