There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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