QUOTES by George Orson Welles
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."
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"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."
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"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."
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"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies."
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"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."
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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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"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."
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"Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up."
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"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."
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"Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest."
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"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
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"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."
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"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
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"The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate."
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"Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them."
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Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
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"I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go."
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"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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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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"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."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
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"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."
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"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."
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"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."
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"Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant."
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"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."
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"Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers."
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