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.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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 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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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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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