I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESThe ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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