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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!

Orson Welles

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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
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
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
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.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World

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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