The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“No matter what the Bible says—and I'm not a fundamentalist—I just don't think that men were the first. I don't think that… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles Copy Share
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. — Orson Welles Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels… — Orson Welles Copy Share
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about… — Orson Welles Copy Share
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around… — Orson Welles Copy Share
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the… — Orson Welles Copy Share
