Orson Welles quotes Born: 05/06/1915 Died: 10/10/1985 Country: usa

• When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends. (Orson Welles)
• Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. (Orson Welles)
• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. (Orson Welles) [director/director/take/day]
• Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one! (Orson Welles) [genius]
• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. (Orson Welles)
• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. (Orson Welles) [stage/form/exhibitionism]
• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people. (Orson Welles) [people]
• A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. (Orson Welles) [film]
• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. (Orson Welles) [order/quotations]
• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. (Orson Welles) [type/type/process/reality]
• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! (Orson Welles) [love/democracy/]
• 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)
• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. (Orson Welles) [teach/mud]
• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. (Orson Welles)
• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. (Orson Welles)
• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. (Orson Welles)
• At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. (Orson Welles)
• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. (Orson Welles)
• 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. (Orson Welles)
• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. (Orson Welles)
• Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. (Orson Welles)
• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! (Orson Welles)
• Fake is as old as the Eden tree. (Orson Welles)
• Gluttony is not a secret vice. (Orson Welles)
• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. (Orson Welles)
• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. (Orson Welles)
• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. (Orson Welles)
• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. (Orson Welles)
• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. (Orson Welles)
• I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. (Orson Welles)
• I have an unfortunate personality. (Orson Welles)

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