I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLESWe’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.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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