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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
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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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
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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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
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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Hate Learning Myself Woman
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word

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