See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
ORSON WELLESSee, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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’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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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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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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