I’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.
ORSON WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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