Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total… — 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
A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling]… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because… — 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
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