I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESA director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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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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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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