Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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 Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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