Orson Welles Quotes
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Quotes to Explore
-
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
-
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
-
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
-
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
-
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
-
I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
-
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
-
The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
-
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
-
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
-
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
-
There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
-
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
-
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
-
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
-
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
-
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
-
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
-
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
-
The natural world is dynamic. From the expanding universe to the hair on a baby's head, nothing is the same from now to the next moment.
-
True silence is the speech of lovers.
-
If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'
-
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
