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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.
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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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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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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 love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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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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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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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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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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