Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESNever expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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 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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