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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.'
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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 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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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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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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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 don't want any description of me to be accurate I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.
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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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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Human nature is eternal therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
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