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.
ORSON WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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