Orson Welles Quotes

But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!

Orson Welles

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• By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Night
  • Go
  • Bed

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Time
  • You
  • Taken

• We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Pain

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Running

• If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Best
  • Come
  • Nowhere

• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Writer

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Real
  • Summer
  • Season

• My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Amazing

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Art
  • House

• If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Know
  • Greed

• Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Comfortable

• I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

  

  Joe Dante
  • Up
  • Good
  • Father

• Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Faith

• He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Man
  • Problem
  • Wants

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!

  

  Orson Welles