Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"I started at the top and worked my way down."
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My Way
69 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way"
Dave Allen
Comedian
"I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things."
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"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success."
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"I have never let gender get in my way."
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"I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times."
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"I have tried in my way to be free."
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"My way has always worked. My way is what got me here."
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"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."
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"Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story."
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"I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day."
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"In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things."
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"There is the easy way and there is my way."
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"I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career."
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"Carey Mulligan is completely self-possessed. She knows what she's doing, and again, quite like the big-hitters I was talking about, my job was just to feel and reflect back the amazing performance coming my way. If anything, I was slightly pathetically flying in her tailwind. She's an extraordinary actress."
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"I like criticism, but it must be my way."
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"I was acting my way through the whole thing."
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"And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth."
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"I can't shove the dark out of my way."
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"I don't see any coronation coming my way"
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"I have been known for almost 30 years to sort of do whatever comes my way. It's always been touch-and-go after each job finishes. I just like to be working."
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"I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that."
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