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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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George Orson Welles
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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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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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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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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
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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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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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