Alfred Hitchcock quotes - page 3

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. (Alfred Hitchcock)
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. View quote
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. View quote
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. View quote
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one. View quote
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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. View quote
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film. View quote
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The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle-including the authorǃ. View quote
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Hitchcock: You know that I think all actors are cattle? George Raft: Yes, I know-but I'm no actor. (Alfred Hitchcock)
Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ. View quote
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Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineǃ. View quote
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We do not recommend suicide as a way of life. View quote
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If I won't be myself, who will? View quote
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films. View quote
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. View quote
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. View quote
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There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game. View quote
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be. View quote
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In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor. (Alfred Hitchcock)
As a matter of fact, I couldn't work if I weren't on friendly terms with them; I'll bend over backward every time. Besides, I get into each picture I make, if only for a couple of seconds-so I'm probably a frustrated actor at heart myself. View quote
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Let us say, rather, that actors are a necessary evil. View quote
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life. View quote
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say. View quote
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