I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else... and really it is not very nice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each tim...e I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many of our German friends before the war would come as our guest to hunt wild pig. I refused to invite Goering. I could not toler...ate his killing a wild pig-- seemed too much like brother against brother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the ac...tor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig; Home again, home again, jiggety jig.... To market, to market, to buy a fine hog; Home again, home again, joggety jog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely ri...ght, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cow and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grai...n, and on the far side of their smell there is hay and grass. Chicken shit is disagreeable and rasps the throat because of the quantity of ammonia. When you are cleaning out the henhouse, you're glad to go to the door and take a deep breath of fresh air. Pig and human excrement, however, smell the worst because men and pigs are carnivorous and their appetites are indiscriminate. The smell includes the sickeningly sweet one of decay. And on the far side of it is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban strang...er to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »