I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESWe’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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