Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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