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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
I’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.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLES

Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
ORSON WELLES

Life Live Money Myself Run Try
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES

Hate Kind Man Myself
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES

Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom

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