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.
ORSON WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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’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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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