All Orson Welles Quotes
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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.
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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.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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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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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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