Tag: Orson Welles
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I’ve always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles
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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
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Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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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
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
Orson Welles