I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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