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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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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