Orson Welles's Quotes

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.

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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

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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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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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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

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I have an unfortunate personality.

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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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