American - Actor | May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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