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Orson Welles Inspirational Quotes (110)

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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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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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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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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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 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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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