[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
[On Bob Fosse] Fosse, I think, came to a high point in his life, with an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, and asked himself, "Do they think I`m really that good? They don`t know I`m really a sham, a hoax, a phony, a lousy human being, not much of a friend to an...
Roy Scheider
[on Orson Welles] For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performa...
Ingmar Bergman
The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno`s Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if tak...
Ashanti Proverb