They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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 can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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