Tag: Orson Welles
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There’s no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles
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When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring – and it didn’t.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I’ve never heard one say, ‘No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.’ They will always say, ‘You don’t like him? I’ve got somebody else.’ They’re totally spineless.
Orson Welles
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything… But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
Orson Welles