Orson Welles Quotes

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

Love, Friendship, Alone

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

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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Dating, Women, Made

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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Election, Popularity, Duck

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

Diet, Three, Stop

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

Down, Friends, Noses

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

Yourself, Others, Unique

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

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

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

Good, Bad, Justice

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Art, Enemy, Absence

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.
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Work, Money, Shall

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

Hate, Stop, Television

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Give, Working, Themselves

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles

Found, Broke, Sanitary

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.
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Money, Real, Problem

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

Dating, Fool, Husband

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

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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Truth, Feeling, Tell

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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Famous, Simple, Why

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

Love, Religion, Great

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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Fake, Old, Tree

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Today, Teach, Mud

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles

Secret, Vice, Gluttony

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 6, 1915

Died: October 10, 1985

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