Quote by Orson Welles
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing H

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

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

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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

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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. – Orson Welles

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Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. – Tommy Steele

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Im the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. – Arthur Miller

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs

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The reason Im in this business, I assume all performers are — its Look at me, Ma! Its acceptance, you know — Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, youll show off till youre exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! – Lenny Bruce

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