Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESI have an unfortunate personality.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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