"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

American, End, Job

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

Carly Simon, American Musician

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, Trying

"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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

American, Coffee, Pride

"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

American, First, Months, Past

"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

Wink Martindale, American Entertainer

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

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."

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"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."

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"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."

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"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."

Trouble

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

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"There is less in this than meets the eye."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"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."

"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

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

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"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."

"Acting is a form of confession."

"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."

"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."

"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

"There is less in this than meets the eye."