I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESCriminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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