Quotes by Orson Welles

Orson Welles
American film maker
Alive from: 1915-1985
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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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.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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