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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek."
People

"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
Actor

"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
Language

"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more."
Love

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
Play

"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
Actor

"Women have a predestination to suffering."
Woman

"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
Imagination

"A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage."
Time

"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
Actor
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