Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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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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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 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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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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