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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Orson Welles

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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
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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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLES

Big Modesty Tough
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person

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