I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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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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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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