I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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