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

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. (Orson Welles)
• I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles)
• I started at the top and worked my way down. (Orson Welles)
• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles)
• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. (Orson Welles)
• I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. (Orson Welles)
• 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. (Orson Welles)
• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. (Orson Welles)
• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. (Orson Welles)
• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. (Orson Welles)
• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. (Orson Welles)
• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. (Orson Welles)
• Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. (Orson Welles)
• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. Orson Welles (Orson Welles)
• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. (Orson Welles)
• Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. (Orson Welles)
• 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. (Orson Welles)
• Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. (Orson Welles)
• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. (Orson Welles)
• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. (Orson Welles)
• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. (Orson Welles)
• 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. (Orson Welles)
• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. (Orson Welles)

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