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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
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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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck

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