Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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