Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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