Ernst Lubitsch Quotes

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

Ernst Lubitsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 29, 1892 - November 30, 1947

Topics

ComedyPlayNobodyCircusTryGoing

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Jimmy Cliff

HomeLieChristianYouValuesRules

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

Jim Broadbent

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America always recovers.

John Catsimatidis

AmericaAlwaysRecovers

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

John Lasseter

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There's so many inspiring people out there.

John Mayer

PeopleOutManyInspiring

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

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I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Mike Myers

SmartDumbDoneJokesLike

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Joshua Ferris

LifeQuestionsEverydayEveryday Life

If no producer, no movie.

Dino De Laurentiis

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Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

Diana Wynne Jones

ThinkYouPersonWildOnlyActually

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

Dick Cavett

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One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

Cheo Hodari Coker

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