Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESThere are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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