Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
ORSON WELLESParis 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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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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