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"37 Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 May 1915. Died: 10 October 1985 | Actor | Writer |

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Top Down Work Start
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Born Alone Live Live
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Give Them They Want
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People Acept Breaking Law
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Prefer People Rock Boat
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race Hate Human Nature
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

You Want Happy Ending
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Create Own Visual Style
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film Never Good Really
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Doctor Told Stop Having
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Nobody Takes Anything Who
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Enemy Art Absence Limitations
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Been Have More Interested
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Justice Nobody Gets People
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

People Losing Capacity Words
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Bad Word Colleague Darken
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Basically Happy Person But
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Cinema Boundary Ribbon Dreams
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Down Something Always Turns up
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Man Born Where From
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Artist Good Isolated He
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Ought Say Misbehave We
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Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

Working Part Life Know
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

True Every Artist Must
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Two Emotions Plane Boredom
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

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

Camera Recording Apparatus More
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Teach Anything They Universities
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Crooks Worst People Stupidest
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Spent Most Life Mature
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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.

People Great Love Hate
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Eating Hate Much Peanuts
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Against Careful Feel I Feel
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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.

Because Been Cave Civilization
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Age Class Enemy Life
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Dumb Enough Intelligent IntelligentPeople
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Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings