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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Orson Welles

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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
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
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World

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