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Famous Orson Welles Quotes
“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”
“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”
“Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.”
“Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.”
“I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.”
“I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.”
“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”
“I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.”
“Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.”
“Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.”
“On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''”
“People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.”
“'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.”
“The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.”
“There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.”