Talk:Orson Welles

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Needs more "mwahaa... the french!" 194.103.31.13 11:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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

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

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

• I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

• My doctor has advised me to give up those intimate little dinners for four. Unless there are three people eating with me.

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

• Tell Turner to keep his goddamned Crayolas away from my film!
  • In response to Ted Turner's announcement of plans to colorize Citizen Kane

• The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

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

• She's the most exciting woman in the world!
  • When he was asked about working with Eartha Kitt.

• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

• Everybody denies that I am genius - but nobody ever called me one.