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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

Orson Welles

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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
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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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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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Accident Movie Old Trouble
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

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