I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESWorking is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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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.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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