Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLESNow 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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 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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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