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The trap is man's armored character structure and there's only one way out of it. It's not drugs and it's not religion and it's not politics. It's going back to the old apple tree and trying to do better than Adam and Eve did.


Orson Bean

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ORSON WELLES 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLES The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
ORSON WELLES If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civili...
ORSON WELLES They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, an...
ORSON WELLES My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLES Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
ORSON WELLES I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with...
ORSON WELLES I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an act...
ORSON WELLES I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human...
ORSON WELLES I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
ORSON WELLES Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the ...
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