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Orson Welles

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship 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

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