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I love Spike Jonze. He's brilliant.Collection: Orson
Well, I haven't done that many movies, but the best one was 'Being John Malkovich.'Collection: Orson
It's never been written about, but before the blacklist of Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten, there was a de facto blacklist by Communists in the movie industry, and there were a lot of them.Collection: Orson
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.Collection: Orson
I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to be Communists who weren't.Collection: Orson
TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.Collection: Orson
Hollywood is very divisive.Collection: Orson
I never cared what anyone thought about me.Collection: Orson
I loved New York in the '50s.Collection: Orson
Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.Collection: Orson
I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.Collection: Orson
I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.Collection: Orson
I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.Collection: Orson
Anything that's done correctly is easy.Collection: Orson
I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.Collection: Orson
Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.Collection: Orson
Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.Collection: Orson
The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.Collection: Orson
I like to work. I like to go every night and play a part.Collection: Orson
My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.Collection: Orson
Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'Collection: Orson
Advertising has always been part show biz.Collection: Orson
Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.Collection: Orson
I don't expect to be another Walt Disney, but I do get a terrific bang out of being able to say things with pictures. Maybe that means something deep and profound about me - but I doubt it.Collection: Orson
My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard police.Collection: Orson
A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.Collection: Orson
I did a lot of TV work for more than 30 years in New York and L.A., but I would get on the stage whenever I could.Collection: Orson
Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act, act. Get into that production of 'The Three Sisters' in a church basement. Consider every audition a chance to act, even if it's just for three minutes. Just do it whenever and wherever you can.'Collection: Orson
I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.Collection: Orson
We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.Collection: Orson
You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.Collection: Orson
I don't believe most kids enjoy school at all, and that's a shameful waste, considering how curious and excited kids are to learn. They're naturally curious, full of wonder.Collection: Orson
I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.Collection: Orson
I just feel lucky; I just feel happy to be alive.Collection: Orson
I don't think that the theater should necessarily pay.Collection: Orson
Even I get fan mail.Collection: Orson
TV has changed everything.Collection: Orson
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.Collection: Orson
If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.Collection: Orson
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.Collection: Orson
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.Collection: Orson
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.Collection: Orson
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.Collection: Orson
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Collection: Orson
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.Collection: Orson
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.Collection: Orson
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.Collection: Orson
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.Collection: Orson
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.Collection: Orson
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.Collection: Orson