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Quoted in interview by Merv Griffin, from Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, NY (1989), page 576.

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

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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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“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

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From the published screenplay for "The Big Brass Ring" (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Teresa Press, 1987)
Variante: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

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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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“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”

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“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

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“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”

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“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

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“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

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“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

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Quelle: Citizen Kane

“I don't think any word can explain a man's life.”

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Quelle: Citizen Kane

“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”

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Quelle: Mr. Arkadin

“But you can't emphasize "beef", that's like his wanting me to emphasize "in" before "July"! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!”

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The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes

“The people who’ve done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] — who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don’t succeed — people who’ve had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever — are the people who didn’t want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn’t want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.”

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Quoted in The Orson Welles Story.

“Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends”

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Attributed to Welles in Ebony magazine (August 1977) https://books.google.com/books?id=08sDAAAAMBAJ&q=%22men+created+civilization%22#v=snippet&q=%22men%20created%20civilization%22&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed quotes

“This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be; The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying "Boo!" Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the next best thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween.”

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The on-air statement he gave at the end of "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, October 30, 1938.

“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this… [walks out].”

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The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes

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

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Orson Welles, "Race hate must be outlawed" (an editorial), Free World (July, 1944). http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-race-hate-must-outlawed/ <br class="br">Quelle: [Higham, Charles, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1985, 216, 0-312-31280-6, https://books.google.com/books?id=pJBlaIC-VG4C&lpg=PA216&dq=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&f=false]

“An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.”

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Welles, speaking in an episode of Orson Welles Sketch-book