American - Actor | May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles
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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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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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.
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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.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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