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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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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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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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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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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 informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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