Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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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 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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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