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" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "
Orson Welles
Want
Because
God
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" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "
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" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "
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Refuge
Perfect
Movie
" Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. "
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Real
Money
Class
" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "
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Think
Stop
Simple
" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
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Sanitary
Always
Broke
" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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Order
Now
Recognize
" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "
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Present
Which
Biography
" I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. "
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Reading
Work
Time
" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "
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Election
Depend
Politicians
" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "
Orson Welles
Own
Yourself
Unique
" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "
Orson Welles
Tree
Eden
Fake
" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "
Orson Welles
Successful
Most
Worst
" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "
Orson Welles
Ideas
Losing
People
" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "
Orson Welles
I Believe
Believe
Possibilities
" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
Orson Welles
Looks
Somebody
Like
" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
Orson Welles
Accomplishment
Always
Experiment
" 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
Faster
More
Miles
" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "
Orson Welles
Film
Invention
Room
" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "
Orson Welles
People
Stop
Doctor
" I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. "
Orson Welles
Hate
Man
Kind
" 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
People
Face
Hate
" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "
Orson Welles
Gangster
Hollywood
Invention
" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "
Orson Welles
Never
Your
America
" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "
Orson Welles
Stand
You
Stand Up
" 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
Religion
Love
Hate
" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "
Orson Welles
Hate
Human
Nature
" 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
Uncomfortable
Always
Moral
" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "
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Life
Middle
Society
" 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. "
Orson Welles
People
Short
True
" 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. "
Orson Welles
People
Mind
Know