Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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