Mediocre Quote by Orson Welles Download Open image “Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.” — Orson Welles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mediocre Movie Perfect Refuge
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realized I was a mediocre movie star at best. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and I don't… — Aisling Loftus Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time. — Len Smith Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“The next time you see a sixteen-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
