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Orson Welles
American
Actor
Born:
May 6
,
1915
Died:
Oct 10
,
1985
Always
Anything
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Love
Friendship
Alone
Illusion
Love And Friendship
Live
Our
Our Love
Born
Only
Through
Die
Create
Moment
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
Good
Justice
People
Bad Luck
Luck
Good Luck
Bad
Only
Nobody
Get
Gets
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
Election
Depend
Politicians
Scale
Would
Take
Duck
Senate
Donald
Donald Duck
Should
Popularity
Seats
Muppet
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
Me
People
Doctor
Three
Other
Unless
Intimate
Dinners
Having
Diet
Stop
Four
I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles
Funny
Personality
Unfortunate
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
Women
Made
Impress
Our
Eating
Girlfriends
Civilization
Dating
Raw
Because
Still
Been
Cave
Order
Meat
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
Me
You
Made
Live
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Philistine
Everything
Recognize
Out
Reconcile
About
Between
Poles
Saint
Contradiction
Just
Them
Us
Two
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
Good
Me
You
Director
Gentleman
Few
Magician
Onstage
Writer
Name
Am
Welles
Ladies
Producer
Radio
Many
Appear
Evening
Actor
Why
Orson Welles
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles
Editing
Cinema
Invention
Eloquence
Critics
Directing
Editing Room
Achieved
Room
Notion
Whole
Film
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
Myself
You
Hate
People
Guilt
Face
Live
Think
Guilty
Something
How
Real
Up
Get
Forgive
Want
Psychoanalysis
Should
Rid
Why
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
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
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
Man
Cause
Word
Otherwise
Lawless
Something
Could
Never
Had
Developed
Idea
Opened
Protestant
Been
Cultures
America
Common
Frontier
Mean
Your
Bond
Jewish
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
Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
Orson Welles
Good
Allocated
Studio
Studios
Limited
Screen
Screens
Create
Product
Each
Fill
Filling
Amount
Need
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
Myself
Me
You
Editing
Treat
Try
Long
Control
Later
More
Gives
No-One
Studio
Takes
Economical
Like
Make
Because
Them
Then
Means
Noticed
Use
Image
Necessary
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
Orson Welles
Remember
First
Young
Every
Medium
Has-Been
Responsible
Must
About
First Thing
Cultivate
Been
Fallow
Left
Artist
Essential
The First Thing
Ground
Film
Thing
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
Stage
Laws
Both
Form
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
Art
Best
Made
Addiction
Interview
Despite
Like
French
Art Form
Form
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
Will
Own
Restaurant
Allow
Never
Like
Particularly
Talking
Waiters
Dishes
Ask
Ever
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
Orson Welles
Television
Photographed
Like
Gets
Near
Plays
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
Orson Welles
You
Stage
Pray
Effectively
Cannot
Things
Two
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