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.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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.
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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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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