Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 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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