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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.

Orson Welles

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer

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