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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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 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 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. "

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" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

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

" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "

" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

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

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

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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

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" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "

" 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. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

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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. "

" 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? "

" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "

" If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. "

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