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I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.Orson Welles
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.Orson Welles
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles
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You know what the fellow said — in Italy, for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.Orson Welles
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.Orson Welles
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Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I’ve never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn’t have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am. .Orson Welles
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.Orson Welles
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The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.Orson Welles
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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or otherOrson Welles
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damnOrson Welles
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.Orson Welles
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If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!Orson Welles
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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 a moment that we’re not alone.Orson Welles
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I dont 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
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.Orson Welles
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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.Orson Welles
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Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart, " cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much. .Orson Welles
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I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.Orson Welles
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.Orson Welles
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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.Orson Welles
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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
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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.Orson Welles
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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.Orson Welles
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.Orson Welles
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Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.Orson Welles
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.Orson Welles
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.Orson Welles
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.Orson Welles
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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
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I have an unfortunate personality.Orson Welles
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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.Orson Welles
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.Orson Welles
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.Orson Welles