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


Orson Welles


#orson-welles #life

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.


Orson Welles


#f-for-fake #frauds #orson-welles #post-modernism #life

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.


Nora Ephron


#college

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.


James Wolcott


#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.


Patrick Macnee


#better #citizen #citizen kane #course #everyone

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.


Mercedes McCambridge


#breed #certain #even #ever #glad

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.


Frank Miller


#bunch #came #chandler #comics #crime

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.


Christopher Nolan


#dream #go #i #if i could #myself

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.


Eartha Kitt


#doctors #doing #eat #eating #enjoying

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.


Mark Rydell


#absolutely #always #amazed #because #i