Orson Welles Quotes - Page 5

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• It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

  Orson Welles

  No Money, Walks, Worth It

  YouTube Channel "Meta Sage"/"Obscure Audio 2: Orson Welles Outtakes - Frozen Peas", www.youtube.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

  Orson Welles

  Afternoon, May, Vanishing

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• I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

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• Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

  Orson Welles

  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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• Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

  Orson Welles

  Stories, World, Paradise

  Orson Welles, Bridget Gellert Lyons (1988). “Chimes at Midnight”, p.262, Rutgers University Press

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• The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Long, People

  "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

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• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

  Orson Welles

  Tombstone, Want, Boat

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• Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

  Orson Welles

  Fake People, Eden, Fake

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• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  Orson Welles

  Hate, Real, Thinking

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• If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

  Orson Welles

  Would Be, World, Film

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Driving, Hours, Miles

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Editing, Effort

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  Orson Welles

  Business, Hate, Nuts

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• Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm
  not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the
  vulgarian.

  Orson Welles

  Character, Men, America

  "Orson Welles on Latin America" by Chan Norris, PM, p. 17, September 13, 1942.

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• The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

  Orson Welles

  Trouble, Accidents

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Thinking, Sake

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The basic and essential human is the woman.

  Orson Welles

  Essentials, Humans, Feathers

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• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Want, Praying, Bores

  Interview with Merv Griffin. "Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles". Book by Frank Brady, Charles Scribner's Sons edition, p. 576, 1989.

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• The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Years, Directors

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• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Cooking, Secret

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• One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

  Orson Welles

  Animal, Garden, Vision

  "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  Orson Welles

  Stressed, Moral, Social

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  Orson Welles

  Decision, Cameras, Actors

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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