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An artist is always out of ste...

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

Never expect justice in this w...

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

Only in a police state is the ...

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

The camera is much more than a...

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

I rather think the cinema will...

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

The director is simply the aud...

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

I think we're a kind of desper...

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

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I hate it when people pray on ...

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

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I don't pray really, because I...

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

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Our songs will all be silenced...

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

Hollywood is Hollywood. There'...

Hollywood is Hollywood. There's nothing you can say about it that isn't true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter Ђ' you're the one who sat down, and joined the game.

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Human nature is eternal; there...

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

The word genius was whispered ...

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

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You know what I did this morni...

You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

The director is simply the aud...

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents....

Orson Welles 258 quotes

I have all the equipment to be...

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

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FDR used to say, 'You and I ar...

FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.

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My theory is that everything w...

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

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We will sell no wine before it...

We will sell no wine before its time.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

A long-playing full shot is wh...

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Orson Welles 258 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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