Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESPopularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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