I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESI 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!
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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