We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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