Orson Welles Quotes - Page 7

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  Orson Welles

  Interesting, Biographies, Biographers

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• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Masters

  Quoted in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and Ronald L. Davis, Hollywood Anecdotes (1988)

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• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

  Orson Welles

  Looks, Ifs

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• Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

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  Arte, Guerra, Ganar

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• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

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• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  Orson Welles

  Civilization, Century, Theater

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• I drag my myth around with me.

  Orson Welles

  Deception, Drag, Myth

  Orson Welles Peter Bogdanovich (1992). "This is Orson Welles", HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Real, Night, Lines

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• Cada actor cree en su corazón todo lo malo que se publica sobre él.

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  Fake People, Believe, Heart

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• I don't take art as seriously as politics.

  Orson Welles

  Arte

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• I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

  Orson Welles

  Men, Thinking, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• Hicimos civilización para impresionar a nuestras novias.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Order, Civilization

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

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  Art, Writing, Want

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• I'm a lurid character!

  Orson Welles

  Carácter

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• I never said I was a genius.

  Orson Welles

  Genius, Said

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• Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Hollywood, Blame

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• The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

  Orson Welles

  Men, Said, Has Beens

  Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Film Library (1961). “The cinema of Orson Welles”

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

  Orson Welles

  Real, Looks, Prodigies

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• [The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

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  Motivation, People, World

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• Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Expression, Cinema

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• In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

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  Cameras, Rolling, Cinema

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• I have no great message to the world.

  Orson Welles

  World, Messages

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• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

  Orson Welles

  Book, Beer, Order

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• 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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  Hobbies, Making Money, Abandon

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