Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
ORSON WELLESEverything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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