Tag: Orson Welles
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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I’m not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I’m no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles
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I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
Orson Welles
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles
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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
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles