Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLES
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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