I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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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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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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