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Preston Sturges quotes: You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Preston Sturges quotes: Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

Preston Sturges quotes: JEANBoy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONELDon't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.

JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.

Preston Sturges quotes: I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Preston Sturges quotes: You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time not knowing you were cracked might get the wrong impression of you.

You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time
not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you.

Preston Sturges quotes: If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Preston Sturges quotes: Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Preston Sturges quotes: Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Preston Sturges quotes: I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Preston Sturges quotes: JEANI need him like the axe needs the turkey.HARRINGTONDon't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

Preston Sturges quotes: It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Preston Sturges quotes: In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

Preston Sturges quotes: That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

Preston Sturges quotes: When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Preston Sturges quotes: If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Preston Sturges quotes: I should have had the pickle.

I should have had the pickle.

Preston Sturges quotes: I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

Preston Sturges quotes: Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Preston Sturges quotes: The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

Preston Sturges quotes: Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

Preston Sturges quotes: I always was and always will be optimistic.

I always was and always will be optimistic.

Preston Sturges quotes: The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.