A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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