Orson Welles Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  Orson Welles

  Two, Saint, Contradiction

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

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  Women, Coffee, Things In Life

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• There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

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  Travel, Journey, Emotional

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• Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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  Tough, Bigs, Modest

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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  Hate, Way, Abstract

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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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  Ducks, Election, Popularity

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• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

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  College, Pie, Today

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• A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

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  Army, Artist, Needs

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• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

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  Artist, Should, Isolated

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

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  Feelings, Too Much, Sickness

  "Encore: 'Future Shock' 40 Years Later". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 30, 2016.

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• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

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  Life, Luxury, Lap

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• Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

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  Ignorance, Equal, Careful

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

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  Artist, Way, Very True

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• The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

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  Photography, Cameras, World

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• The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

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  Evil, Hatred, Police

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• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

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  Accomplishment, Experiments

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• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

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  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise" by Barbara Leaming, The New York Times, July 14, 1985.

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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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  Giving, Theatre, Suggestions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Friends

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• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

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  Thinking, Color, Years

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• I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

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  Joy, Kind, Happy Person

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• Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

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  Illusion

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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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  Girlfriend, Husband, Fool

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• A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

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  Boys, Film, Train

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• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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  Looks, Behavior, Misbehaving

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