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" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

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" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "

" I have an unfortunate personality. "

" My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "

" Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? "

" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" 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. "

" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "

" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" 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. "

" I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. "

" 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. "

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "