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Famous Orson Welles Quotes
“You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.”
“A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.”
“Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.”
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
“When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.”
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.”
“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.”
“I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.”
“Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.”
“I have an unfortunate personality.”
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
“Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.”
“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.”
“I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.”
“Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.”
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”