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S. J. Perelman Quotes

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1904 - October 17, 1979

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Personality You Out Us Only Like

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

Work Good Great Better You Over

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

First Years Out Fiction Seven Made

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor Bubble Empty

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Matthew Macfadyen

People Think You Play Ghosts Get

I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a theatrical screening when I cannot trust that it will ever be seen in the format that it's intended to be.

Trust I Am Will Seen Film Going

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

Eyes Action Capture Emotion Director

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.

Entrepreneur Politician

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Roy H. Williams

Artist Hand Image Mental Tool

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

Best Think Comedy Serious Kind Make

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

You Movies Watching Obsession Out

Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

Time Mind Someone Tradition Long

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Business Money Black Always Through

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