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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 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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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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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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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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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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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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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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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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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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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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