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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!

Orson Welles

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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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst

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