W. C. Fields Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
