We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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 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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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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 director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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