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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Orson Welles

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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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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 movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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