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" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "
Orson Welles
Irish
Gloom
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" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "
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Stage
Both
Form
" 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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Playing
Essential
Flying
" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "
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Artist
Out
Step
" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "
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People
Stop
Doctor
" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "
Orson Welles
Mother
Father
Story
" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
Orson Welles
Order
Now
Recognize
" I have no great message to the world. "
Orson Welles
Message
Great
World
" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "
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Near
Like
Gets
" 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? "
Orson Welles
Good
Evening
I Am
" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "
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Refuge
Perfect
Movie
" 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. "
Orson Welles
Alone
Moment
Love
" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "
Orson Welles
Much
Eating
Hate
" 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
" 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
" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "
Orson Welles
Enough
Wish
Politics
" I have an unfortunate personality. "
Orson Welles
Personality
Unfortunate
Funny
" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "
Orson Welles
Ecstasy
Part
Really
" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
Orson Welles
Society
Law
Accept
" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "
Orson Welles
Present
Which
Biography
" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "
Orson Welles
Look
Ought
Say
" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "
Orson Welles
Think
Stop
Simple
" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "
Orson Welles
Like
Colonists
Very
" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "
Orson Welles
Arrogant
Anybody
Company
" 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. "
Orson Welles
Child
Know
Me
" I started at the top and worked my way down. "
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Way
Down
Started
" 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
" Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "
Orson Welles
Hollywood
Industry
Purpose
" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "
Orson Welles
Love
Never
Boat
" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "
Orson Welles
Christmas
Me
Tree
" 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