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Orson Welles Quotes

«When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends»
«A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Art | Keywords: isolate, isolated, isolates, isolating
«I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.»
«I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Television | Keywords: peanuts
«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.»
«I have an unfortunate personality.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: unfortunate
«I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: bore
«Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: lunch, lunches, what for
«The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Enemies, Life, Society | Keywords: middle age, middle class
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Luxury | Keywords: lap, lap of luxury, luxury, stand up

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