15 quotes
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”
"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."
on Faith
"Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature."
on Racism
"If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!"
on Life
"We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
on Society
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."
on Love
"We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone."
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
on Truth
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
on Art
"What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other"
on History
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
