Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESA movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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