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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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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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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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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 worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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