Claudette Colbert Quotes
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
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I'm like a sight gag.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
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If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
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What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
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Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.
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Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
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There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.
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The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
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The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
