There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLESNow 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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