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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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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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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect it's the aspect.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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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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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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