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.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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