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" I have no great message to the world. "
Orson Welles
Message
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" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "
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" 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.' "
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" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "
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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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" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "
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" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "
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" 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. "
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" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "
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" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "
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" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "
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" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
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" My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. "
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" 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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" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "
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" I have an unfortunate personality. "
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" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "
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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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" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "
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" 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. "
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" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "
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" 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. "
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