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" 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. "

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" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "

" 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? "

" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "

" 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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "

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

" 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. "

" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "

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

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

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

" 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. "

" I have no great message to 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. "

" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "

" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "

" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "