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Orson Welles Quotes

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles Quotes

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. – Orson Welles Quotes

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. – Orson Welles Quotes

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles Quotes

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. – Orson Welles Quotes

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him. – Orson Welles Quotes

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one! – Orson Welles Quotes

Fake is as old as the Eden tree. – Orson Welles Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice. – Orson Welles Quotes

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

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. – Orson Welles Quotes

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them. – Orson Welles Quotes

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. – Orson Welles Quotes

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. – Orson Welles Quotes

I have an unfortunate personality. – Orson Welles Quotes

Idiots Quotes

Posted on January 17, 2011January 19, 2011 by

– “Treat everyone the same until you find out they’re an idiot.” – Lucy Lawless

– “Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.” – George Jean Nathan

– “Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” – Arthur Schopenhauer

– “But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.” – Alex Chiu

– “By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.” – Jason Bateman

– “Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.” – Karl Kraus

– “For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.” – Honore De Balzac

– “From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.” – Mikhail Bakunin

– “Guys are idiots, till they’re what, 40 years old.” – Wes Borland

– “Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.” – Walter Kerr

– “Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” – Trey Parker

– “Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.” – Patricia Heaton

– “I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.” – Muammar al-Gaddafi

– “I don’t mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they’re such a bunch of idiots, why don’t you show them good music instead? They’re not going to know the difference.” – Kristin Hersh

– “I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.” – Josh Silver

– “I think the terrorists are just idiots.” – Joel Madden

Sam Worthington Quotes

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

– “I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars` worth when they go to a movie, and that they`re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don`t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think… ”
– “A mate of mine told me recently, `It`s the first time I`ve seen you work, Worthington.` I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. [Empire magazine, October 2006]”
– “A lot of these people were getting to where they didn’t need help anymore. You have to start all over again.”
– “People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.”
– “You help families focus on the future through their children.”

– “To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… You have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.”

– “There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.”

– “Our challenge is that we respond to stark events.”

Note: Sam Worthington is an American Hollywood actor. He is best known for his roles in Avatar (2009), Dirty Deeds (2002), Bootmen (2000)

Will Smith Quotes

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

will-smith – “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
– “I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
– “I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘Will Smith’ thing and get paid.”
– “I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”
– “If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.”
– “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”
– “It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.”

– “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”

– “My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.”

– “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say «Now kick your feet.»”

– “There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?”

– “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

– “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”

– “Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”

– “You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”