I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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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.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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