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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
— Preston Sturges
Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
— Preston Sturges
JEANBoy, 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
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
— Preston Sturges
You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you. — Preston Sturges
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
Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
— Preston Sturges
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
— Preston Sturges
I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
— Preston Sturges
When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of it.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
— Matthew Modine
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
— Preston Sturges
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
When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them.
— Carlos Beltran
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
Oh, fantastic," Vic muttered. "Just bloody fantastic. The goddess has given me to a bleeding pacifist-
— Jennifer Estep
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
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
JEANI need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges
Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.
— Bill Hader
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
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
— Albert Camus
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
— Preston Sturges
The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.
— Preston Sturges
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
The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.
— Justin Cole
I always was and always will be optimistic.
— Preston Sturges
The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.
— Preston Sturges
Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm ...
— George R R Martin
Sometimes solutions seemed to come out of the air.
— Alan Cumyn
I should have had the pickle.
— Preston Sturges