Orson Welles Quotes
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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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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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.
