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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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
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
Truth Me You Beard Theatre Feeling White Back Tell Wearing About Something Cheap Terrible Because Am Mount Expect Sitting Seats
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
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
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
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. Orson Welles
God Bore Because Pray Want
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
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