I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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