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

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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

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

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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

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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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Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

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

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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

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I never said I was a genius.

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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

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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.

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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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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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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

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I have an unfortunate personality.

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I have no great message to the world.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

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

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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

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