Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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