People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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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.
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