Orson Welles Quotes

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Orson Welles

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 6, 1915

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orson Welles

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Orson Welles

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

Orson Welles

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Orson Welles

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

Orson Welles

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

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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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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

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