There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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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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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.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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