Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESAn artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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 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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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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