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37 Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings
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37 Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 6 May 1915. Died: 10 October 1985 |
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
Give
Them
They
Want
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles
People
Acept
Breaking
Law
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
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Prefer
People
Rock
Boat
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles
Race
Hate
Human
Nature
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
You
Want
Happy
Ending
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
Doctor
Told
Stop
Having
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles
Nobody
Takes
Anything
Who
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Orson Welles
Enemy
Art
Absence
Limitations
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Orson Welles
Been
Have
More
Interested
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
Justice
Nobody
Gets
People
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
Bad
Word
Colleague
Darken
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Basically
Happy
Person
But
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
Orson Welles
Cinema
Boundary
Ribbon
Dreams
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
Orson Welles
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.
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Down
Something
Always
Turns up
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Orson Welles
Man
Born
Where
From
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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.
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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.
Orson Welles
Working
Part
Life
Know
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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True
Every
Artist
Must
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Two
Emotions
Plane
Boredom
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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.
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Camera
Recording
Apparatus
More
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles
Teach
Anything
They
Universities
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Crooks
Worst
People
Stupidest
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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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.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
Because
Been
Cave
Civilization
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
Dumb
Enough
Intelligent
IntelligentPeople
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Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings