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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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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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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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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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One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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