Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
Quotes to Explore
-
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
-
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
-
Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
-
When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
-
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
-
Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
-
I do think one should have clean feet.
-
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
-
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
-
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
-
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
-
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
-
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
-
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
-
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
-
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
-
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
-
My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
-
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
-
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
-
Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
-
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
-
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
-
One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
