Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)
None Are So Blind (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host
Quotes
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[first lines]
Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is sitting in front of a large vanity mirror with lights and has a toupee on his head. He turns to the camera] Good evening. The entertainment industry is always crying for new faces.
[takes off toupee]
Alfred Hitchcock : I've decided to give them one. Not that there's anything wrong with the old one. In fact, I think it's rather good.
[preens in the mirror, which cracks]
Alfred Hitchcock : [turns wryly to the camera] Well, it could have been worse. What if I had cracked?
[searching through wigs]
Alfred Hitchcock : See, here's the one.
[putting on a wig and glasses]
Alfred Hitchcock : I've always wanted to be someone else.
[looks at himself]
Alfred Hitchcock : That won't do. I look like a near-sighted hearth rug.
[takes off wig and glasses]
Alfred Hitchcock : By an odd coincidence, we have a story about a man who decided to be someone other than himself. And by an equally odd coincidence, it is rehearsed and ready to start. Here it is.
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[last lines]
Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing in front of the vanity mirror and turns. He is wearing a hat and foppish mustache] Poor Seymour. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
[removes the hat and mustache]
Alfred Hitchcock : Um, I've decided not to be someone else after all. If I won't be myself, who will? However, allow me to indulge my exhibitionist tendencies with this quick-change demonstration. The Alfred Hitchcock of today.
[turns away from the camera, busies himself, then turns back unchanged]
Alfred Hitchcock : The Alfred Hitchcock of thirty years ago. The secret of this transformation is rather simple. I just removed my wallet. And now, I shall remove myself. But soon I shall return with another story. Good night.