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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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