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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
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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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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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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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