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Orson Welles Quotes

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

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Flying You Playing Means Essential

When I heard the BBC was making 'Little Women,' I rushed to audition.

Women Little Audition Making Heard

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Walk Parents Me Dinner Thinking You

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

Michael Arrington

Change Success Politics Support Rich

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

Will Way Him Destroy Himself Obama

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Steven Spielberg

Smile Good Time People World Laugh

I think trying to create intimacy on a set with a boom over your head can be a little embarrassing.

Think Trying Create Intimacy Head

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Love Power Hate Words Me Saying

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

Good Bite A Good Thing Thing

We're all making decisions to make ourselves happy and our families happy. That doesn't take away what we've done together and the special bond that we created and the special bond that we have and just all the memories that we had together. That will never change. As you move forward, you appreciate those moments and keep going forward.

Change Memories Keep Going Together

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Clarence Thomas

Think Risk Our Freedoms

I always wanted to be a star.

Always Star Wanted

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.

Song I Can Turn Out Singer Musician

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