Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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