Alfred Hitchcock Presents Quotes

#1. Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

Jacki Weaver

#2. When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

David Gerrold

#3. I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

Atom Egoyan

#4. Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

Amy Tan

#5. Like love, mourning affects the world - and the worldly - with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.

Roland Barthes

#6. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.

Lauren Groff

#7. I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

Marianne Faithfull

#8. Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Dean Hamer

#9. I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.

Tony Visconti

#10. It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

Alfred Hitchcock

#11. You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Stephen Baker

#13. Some things, down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things.

Rick Yancey

#14. Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had.

Abraham Verghese

#15. In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

Dominique Moceanu

#16. Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche