Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLES
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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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