“Perhaps a man like you can’t realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. Do you imagine it’s pleasant to be ashamed of something you can’t even remember?”
Orson Welles
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“Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is aclass distinction, not an ethical problem.”
Orson Welles
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“Now I’m going to tell you about a scorpion. This scorpion wanted to cross a river, so he asked a frog to carry him. “No,” said the frog, “no thank you. If I let you on my back you may sting me, and the sting of the scorpion is death.” “Now where,” asked the scorpion, “is the logic of that? If I sting you, you will die, I will drown.” So the frog was convinced to allow the scorpion on his back. But, just in the middle of the river, he felt a terrible pain and realized that, after all, the scorpion had stung him. “Logic!” cried the dying frog as he started under, taking the scorpion down with him. “There is no logic in this!” “I know,” said the scorpion, “but I can’t help it. It’s my character.”
Orson Welles
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“He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about people?”
Orson Welles
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Orson Welles
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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
Orson Welles
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“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.”
Orson Welles
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.”
Orson Welles
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“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
Orson Welles
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“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.”
Orson Welles
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“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
Orson Welles
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“A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Orson Welles
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“The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.”
Orson Welles
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“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”
Orson Welles
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“Everybody denies I am a genius –but nobody ever called me one!”
Orson Welles
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“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”
Orson Welles
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“When you are down and out something always turns up — and it is usually the noses of your friends.”
Orson Welles
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