I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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