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" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "
Orson Welles
Life
Middle
Society
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" 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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" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "
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" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
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" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "
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" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "
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" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "
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" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "
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" 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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Me
" Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. "
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Tough
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" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "
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Which
Biography
" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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Looks
Somebody
Like
" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "
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Out
Step
" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "
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Good
Justice
" 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. "
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You
Theatre
" 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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More
Miles
" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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Order
Now
Recognize
" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
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Enemy
Limitations
Art
" I have an unfortunate personality. "
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Personality
Unfortunate
Funny
" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "
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Much
Eating
Hate
" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "
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Nobody
I Am
Genius
" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "
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Pretty
Protect
Feel
" 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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Work
Time
" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "
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Film
Invention
Room
" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "
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Refuge
Perfect
Movie
" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "
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Like
" 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. "
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" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "
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Ought
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" 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? "
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Good
Evening
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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "
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Teach
Today
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