My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESI 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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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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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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