American - Actor | May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985
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
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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I never said I was a genius.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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