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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
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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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
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 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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time

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