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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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