Orson Welles quotes - page 5

I would rather be on the set than doing anything. (Orson Welles)
There were centuries when civilization had no theater. View quote
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. View quote
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. View quote
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. View quote
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. View quote
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' View quote
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. View quote
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. View quote
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. View quote
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. (Orson Welles)
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. View quote
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. View quote
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. View quote
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. View quote
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. View quote
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. View quote
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. View quote
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. (Orson Welles)
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. View quote
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed. View quote
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by. View quote
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. View quote
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