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 WELLESThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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