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Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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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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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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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
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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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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 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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Human nature is eternal therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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