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- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
- Bore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
- Broke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
- Glorification
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never said I was a genius.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no great message to the world.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
- Nov 07, 2020
I started at the top and worked my way down.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an unfortunate personality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
- Nov 07, 2020