Orson Welles Quotes - 9quotes.com

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I started at the top and worked my way down.
Written by Orson Welles
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Written by Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Written by Orson Welles
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Written by Orson Welles
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Written by Orson Welles
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Written by Orson Welles
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Written by Orson Welles
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Written by Orson Welles
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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I have an unfortunate personality.
Written by Orson Welles
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.
Written by Orson Welles
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Written by Orson Welles
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Written by Orson Welles
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Written by Orson Welles
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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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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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.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Written by Orson Welles
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Written by Orson Welles
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Written by Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Written by Orson Welles
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Written by Orson Welles
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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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Written by Orson Welles
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Written by Orson Welles

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