Peter Biskind quotes
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“Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.”
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“I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.199, Macmillan
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“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.235, Macmillan
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“I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan
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“I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.211, Macmillan
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“It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan
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“I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.270, Macmillan
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“'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.”
-- Peter BiskindSource : Peter Biskind (2010). “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
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“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
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“Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”
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“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”
Source : 1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.
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Source : "My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel". Book by Ari Shavit, November 19, 2013.
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“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”
Source : The Postman Always Rings Twice ch. 1 (1934)
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