Orson Welles Quotes

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Orson Welles

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 6, 1915

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

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Orson Welles

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

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

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.

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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

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

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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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I have an unfortunate personality.

Orson Welles

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

Orson Welles

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

Orson Welles

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Orson Welles

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

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Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

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