Quotes by Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American film maker

Lived from: 1915 - 1985

Category: Movie Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 6 may 1915 Died: 10 october 1985

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  • Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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  • Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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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.
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  • People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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  • The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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  • 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.
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  • The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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  • The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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  • The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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  • The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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  • They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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.
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  • When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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