My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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 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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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