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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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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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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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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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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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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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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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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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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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