At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESParis 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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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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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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