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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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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.
Orson Welles
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles -
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
Orson Welles -
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.
Orson Welles -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles -
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Orson Welles -
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Orson Welles
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
Orson Welles -
I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
Orson Welles -
I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
Orson Welles -
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
Orson Welles -
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles -
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles -
Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
Orson Welles -
An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.
Orson Welles -
This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.
Orson Welles -
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