I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Paris 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.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Everything 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 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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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