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Orson Welles
Orson Welles (May 6 , 1915 - October 10 , 1985 )
- Writer , Actor , and film director
- Works: Citizen Kane, Othello (1952), Touch of Evil, and many more
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- "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
- "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 told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
- "Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
- "The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."
- "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
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