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Orson Welles
Quotes by Orson Welles
Quotes by Orson Welles
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles
“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
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“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
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“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
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“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
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“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
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“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
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“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
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“The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.”
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“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.”
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“Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?”
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“Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.”
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“I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.”
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“The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.”
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.”
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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
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“Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.”
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“I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.”
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“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
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“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life.”
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“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
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“Fake is as old as the Eden tree.”
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“I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'”
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“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.”
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.”
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“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”
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“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”
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“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
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“Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.”
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