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.
ORSON WELLESI have an unfortunate personality.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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