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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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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 camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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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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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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