I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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’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’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 love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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