Orson Welles Quotes

Orson Welles

American Actor

Born: May 6, 1915

Died: Oct 10, 1985

Always Anything Me People Think You

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

Yourself Style Own Others Visual Create Your Unique

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny Personality Unfortunate

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. Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles

Art Enemy Absence Limitations

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

People Law Society Something Accept Normal Happens Breaking Whole

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

Nature Hate Abandonment Human Nature Human Race

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

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

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. Orson Welles

Life Spent Most Prove Mature Trying Irresponsible

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. Orson Welles

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

Old John John Ford Ford Masters Which Mean Prefer

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

Class Problem Money Criminals Distinction Those Counted Never Failures Make Because Real Very Real Money Ethical Who Amusing

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. Orson Welles

Today You Major Anything Mud Teach Universities

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

Ought Say Misbehave Could Look

I started at the top and worked my way down. Orson Welles

Down Top Way Worked Started

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

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Orson Welles

Director Kind Writes Who

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

Somebody Like Looks Them

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. Orson Welles

Me Everything Has-Been Bad Lawyers Caused Been Happened Agents Ever

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. Orson Welles

Directing Perfect Refuge Movie Mediocre

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