I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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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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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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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