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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
Orson Welles
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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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One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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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 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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The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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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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