When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLESParis 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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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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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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