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Orson Welles Inspirational Quotes (111)

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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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.
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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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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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