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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
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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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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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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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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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 worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
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