Alex Cox Based Quotes


We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles Love 435
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Welles Create 124
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. Orson Welles age 93
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles Quotations 93
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. Orson Welles Education 91
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. Orson Welles Art 86
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 Money 85
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles Movies 83
Fake is as old as the Eden tree. Orson Welles Eden 80
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one! Orson Welles Genius 79
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. Orson Welles Theater 78
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. Orson Welles Hollywood 72
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles Film 71
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 Money 70
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles Beard 69
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. Orson Welles Afford 68
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. Orson Welles Law 67
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover as I say Innocently as though there had never been anybody. Orson Welles Learn 65
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles Artist 63
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles Course 60
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. Orson Welles America 59
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles art 56
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. Orson Welles Passion 55
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. Orson Welles Appear 54
I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles Personality 53
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 Religion 51
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. Orson Welles Entertainment 50
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles Artist 46
I started at the top and worked my way down. Orson Welles Down 43
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. Orson Welles Down 42
Gluttony is not a secret vice. Orson Welles Gluttony 41
There are three intolerable things in life cold coffee lukewarm champagne and overexcited women... Orson Welles Coffee 41
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. Orson Welles Dating 40
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad thats printed about him. Orson Welles Film 40
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles diet 40
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. Orson Welles Artistically 31
If you want a happy ending it just depends on where you close the book Orson Welles Happy 30
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch. Orson Welles Food 28
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. Orson Welles Directing 27
Youre beautful. Yes you are youre very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. Orson Welles Film 27
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. Orson Welles Dating 23

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