Orson Welles Quotes

• A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact about the filmmaker as opposed to any other artist : he can never afford his own tools.

  Orson Welles

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• In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

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• In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

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  Topics in God

• The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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  Topics in Art

• I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

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  Topics in God, Life

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

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Diet, Doctors

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband, Personally, Girlfriend, Dating

• 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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  Tags in Girlfriends, Women, Civilization, Dating

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

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

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  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

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

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  Orson Welles

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Hate

Orson Welles (13)

Birth:	6th May, 1915
Death:	10th October, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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