Orson Welles Quotes
Orson Welles Quotes
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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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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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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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