Orson Welles Quotes - Page 4

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• You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Film, Very Beautiful

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• Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

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  Arrogant, Speak, Company

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

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• Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

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  Strong Women, Agents, Lawyer

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• We will sell no wine before its time.

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  Wine, Tv Commercial, Sells

  "Ernest Gallo, the Truth Behind the Myth" by Bob Jamieson, abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2007.

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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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  Spheres, Enthusiasm, Honest

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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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  Mean, Men, Ideas

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• A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

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  Thinking, Different, May

  YouTube Channel "American Film Institute"/"Orson Welles Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975", www.youtube.com. February 02, 2011.

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• I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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  Hate, People, Great Love

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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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  Hate, Dressing Up, Kind

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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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  Talking, Diners, Restaurants

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• Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

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  New York, Home, Cities

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• I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

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  New York, Men, Years

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• In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

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  Two, Opinion, Praying

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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  Running, Trying, Looks

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• I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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  Television, Laziness, Late

  "Orson Welles' criticisms of fellow actors and directors found on lost tapes" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.

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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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  Money, Real, Class

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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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  Sex, Thinking, Luxury

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• I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

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  Eight, Two, Hustle

  Interview with Leslie Megahey for The Orson Welles Story (1982). "Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)" by Mark Estrin, University Press of Mississippi, p. 209, 2002.

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• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

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  Regret, Mistake, Thinking

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• A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

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  Army, Directors, Needs

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

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• Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

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  Song, War, Fall

  "F for Fake". Documentary, 1973.

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• [I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

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  Mistake, Tired, Thinking

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• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

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  Art, Addiction, Interviews

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• My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

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  Definitions, Definition Of Success, Thrown

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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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  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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