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I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
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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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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Human nature is eternal therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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