Orson Welles Quotes
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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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.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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I have no great message to the world.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.