At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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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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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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