If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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