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Orson Welles Quotes

«The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.»
«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.»
«The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: exhibitionism
«Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: celluloid, ecstasy, scene
«The title is so good, you don't have to make the movie; just release the title.»
Author: Orson Welles
«Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.»
Author: Orson Welles
«I have an early call tomorrow. For a commercial. Dog food, I think it is this time. No, I do not eat from the can on camera but I celebrate the contents. Yes, I have fallen so low.»
Author: Orson Welles
«I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.»
«I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.»
Author: Orson Welles
«I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me, but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, Buster Keaton, and a hundred others»

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