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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
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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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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

There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

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