Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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