Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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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 have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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