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.