A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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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 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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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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