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Orson Welles Quotes

«My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Doctors | Keywords: dinners, intimate
«I drag my myth around with me»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Myths | Keywords: drag, myth
«I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.»
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
«Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.»
Author: Orson Welles
«The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.»
«The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.»
«Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Christmas | Keywords: have died
«You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.»
«Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: printed

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