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.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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!
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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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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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