People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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We’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.
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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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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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