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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Orson Welles

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.
ORSON WELLES

Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES

Hate Kind Man Myself
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.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES

Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Himself Magic True
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLES

Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
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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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
ORSON WELLES

Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLES

End Forever Human Nature Original
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.
ORSON WELLES

Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLES

Big Modesty Tough
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLES

Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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.
ORSON WELLES

Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLES

Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
ORSON WELLES

Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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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Camera Record World
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLES

Age Old Sick Yourself

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