I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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