Orson Welles quotes - page 3

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. (Orson Welles)
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. View quote
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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. View quote
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. View quote
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree. View quote
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have an unfortunate personality. View quote
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. (Orson Welles)
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. View quote
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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. View quote
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. View quote
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I started at the top and worked my way down. View quote
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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. View quote
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. View quote
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. View quote
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. (Orson Welles)
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! View quote
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. View quote
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. View quote
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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other. View quote
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