We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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