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Orson Welles Quotes

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful Picture Quote #1

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites Picture Quote #1

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat Picture Quote #1

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn’t that great, anyway. and Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really Picture Quote #1

I’m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It’s become so much about personality Picture Quote #1

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in ‘Julius Caesar.’ It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I’ve never forgotten it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians Picture Quote #1

One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it Picture Quote #1

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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I’ve never heard one say, ‘No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.’ They will always say, ‘You don’t like him? I’ve got somebody else.’ They’re totally spineless Picture Quote #1

I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows Picture Quote #1

I’m a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn’t take up that much time Picture Quote #1

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, ‘cause it was lawless. A man’s word had to mean something Picture Quote #1

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn’t Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody Picture Quote #1

You’re beautful. Yes you are, you’re very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful Picture Quote #1

I’ve always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it’s just that there’s this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong Picture Quote #1

Orson Welles’s second ‘I-did-it’ should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days Picture Quote #1

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights Picture Quote #1

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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck Picture Quote #1

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy Picture Quote #1

Technically, ‘Kukla, Fran and Ollie’ was a kids’ show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we’re talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim Picture Quote #1

Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly Picture Quote #1

I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners Picture Quote #1

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I’m in all of them Picture Quote #1

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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful (Orson Welles Quotes) It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites (Orson Welles Quotes) Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat (Orson Welles Quotes) I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn’t that great, anyway. and Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really (Orson Welles Quotes) I’m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It’s become so much about personality (Orson Welles Quotes) I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in ‘Julius Caesar.’ It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I’ve never forgotten it (Orson Welles Quotes) 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 (Orson Welles Quotes) I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians (Orson Welles Quotes) One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable (Orson Welles Quotes) 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? (Orson Welles Quotes) In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock (Orson Welles Quotes) I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it (Orson Welles Quotes) As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I’ve never heard one say, ‘No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.’ They will always say, ‘You don’t like him? I’ve got somebody else.’ They’re totally spineless (Orson Welles Quotes) I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows (Orson Welles Quotes) I’m a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn’t take up that much time (Orson Welles Quotes) In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, ‘cause it was lawless. A man’s word had to mean something (Orson Welles Quotes) In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night (Orson Welles Quotes) 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 Quotes) When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn’t (Orson Welles Quotes) I don’t believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody (Orson Welles Quotes) You’re beautful. Yes you are, you’re very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful (Orson Welles Quotes) I’ve always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it’s just that there’s this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong (Orson Welles Quotes) Orson Welles’s second ‘I-did-it’ should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days (Orson Welles Quotes) I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights (Orson Welles Quotes) Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck (Orson Welles Quotes) Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy (Orson Welles Quotes) Technically, ‘Kukla, Fran and Ollie’ was a kids’ show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we’re talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Orson Welles Quotes) Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly (Orson Welles Quotes) I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners. (Orson Welles Quotes) Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I’m in all of them. (Orson Welles Quotes)

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