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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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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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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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A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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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'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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