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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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