Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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