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On my tombstone, I want writte...

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Orson Welles 258 quotes

One shouldn't ever be consciou...

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 258 quotes

People are losing the capacity...

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

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The classy gangster is a Holly...

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

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The essential is to excite the...

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

'The Godfather' was the glorif...

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

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The only reason for doing a pl...

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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The two things you cannot do e...

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

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There were centuries when civi...

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

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There's no biography so intere...

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

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I do not suppose I shall be re...

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.

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Criminals are never very amusi...

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

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Good evening, ladies and gentl...

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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In Italy, for 30 years under t...

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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I have wasted the greater part...

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life.

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I don't want to forgive myself...

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.

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Everything about me is a contr...

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.

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I was spoiled in a very strang...

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.

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I can think of nothing that an...

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

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The first thing one must remem...

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.

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