Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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