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Orson Welles


American
May 6, 1915
Actor
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I never said I was a genius.


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Tags: Never Said Genius
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I have no great message to the world.


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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.


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


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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.


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Tags: You Your Country
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'


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Tags: Want Love Never
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.


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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.


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Tags: Who Up Anybody
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.


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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!


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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.


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


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Tags: Life Most Trying
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.


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Tags: Best Which Thing
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.


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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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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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Tags: Good Really Never
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.


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Tags: You Your Want
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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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 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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Tags: Like Will Never
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'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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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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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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