I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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