Orson Welles Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Animal, Garden, Vision

  "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  Orson Welles

  Stressed, Moral, Social

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

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• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  Orson Welles

  Christmas, Fall, Roots

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  Orson Welles

  Truth, White, Feelings

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• The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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

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• I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

  Orson Welles

  Careers, Conviction, Regard

  Interview with Bernie Braden in Paris, 1960.

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• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  Orson Welles

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

  Orson Welles

  Play, Chekhov, Extras

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

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• That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say
  "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible!
  Meaningless!

  Orson Welles

  Sorry, Stupid, July

  YouTube Channel "Meta Sage"/"Obscure Audio 2: Orson Welles Outtakes - Frozen Peas", www.youtube.com. August 29, 2012.

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• FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.

  Orson Welles

  Two, America, Actors

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Children, Years, Able

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Moving, Towns, Rising

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

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• I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.

  Orson Welles

  Children, Adventure, Should Have

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• By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

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  Believe, Accomplishment, Don't Believe

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• I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

  Orson Welles

  Years, Two Year Olds, People

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• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Want, Praying

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

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• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  Orson Welles

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Essentials, Firsts

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  Orson Welles

  Successful, Worst, Best Things

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• I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

  Orson Welles

  Broke, Shanghai, Found

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• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  Orson Welles

  Stupid, Simple, Thinking

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• I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

  Orson Welles

  Promise, Busy, Arranging

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• Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.

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  Wall, Believe, Creativity

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