Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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