Quotes by
Orson Welles |
1915-1985 , American actor & film director
American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media: in theater, most notably Caesar (1937); in radio, the 1938 broadcast The War of the Worlds, one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films. | 22 quotes | 1,603 visits |
Quotations
| • | If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. |
| • | In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! |
| • | I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. |
| • | I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. |
| • | We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
| • | The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. |
| • | If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. |
| • | I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. |
| • | There are three intolerable things in life: cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. |
| • | A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. |
| • | Old age is the only disease you don’t want to be cured of. |
| • | A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. |
| • | I started at the top and worked my way down. |
| • | Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. |
| • | The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. |
| • | Everybody denies I am a genius, but nobody ever called me one. |
| • | I’ve always found it very sanitary to be broke. |
| • | Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. |
| • | The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics. The whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. |
| • | The best of them were the kind of people you’d expect to drive a beer truck. They had no class. The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. |
Funny Quotes
| • | Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. |
| • | My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. |
