Orson Welles
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"George Orson Welles" was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media: in theatre, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar (play)/Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds (radio drama)/The War of the Worlds", one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the List of films considered the best/all-time greatest films.

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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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

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

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

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Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

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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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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

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