Orson Welles Quotes

Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.

Orson Welles

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• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Boy
  • Story

• I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Myself
  • Model
  • Try

• Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • People
  • Face
  • Seem

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Peace
  • Belief
  • Building

• As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Fans

• We are not the people we are in films. I am not an alcoholic. But I portray that. I can't bash up 20 guys at a time in real life. It's just that I do it well on-screen.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Know
  • Die
  • Gonna Be

• The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  

  Livy
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.

  

  Kevin Barry

• Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Heaven
  • Sea
  • Christ

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Future

• The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strange
  • Gods
  • Loving

• Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Breathe