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Orson Welles Quotes

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tough Nobody Anything Big Modest

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

I Am Appreciation Mind Me Think

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Life My Life Private Life Difficult

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Jef I. Richards

Speech Know See Seem Define Like

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Time Possessions Valuable Most Once

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

Stephanie Kwolek

Me Grades Ask Always Neighborhood

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

People America Egypt More Always

Totally, if I wasn't trying to be an actor, I would leave L.A. because you can't really have that life here. There's a lot of baggage that comes with being here, like the paparazzi, traffic, and all of it.

Life Trying You Traffic Actor Leave

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

Game Face Feel Media You Now

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

Character Help Nation Always English

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

Christopher Priest

Good Character History Hero Villain

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Christine Keeler

Mistake Me Chance Feet You Done

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Future Retro Used Being Vibe Stuff

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