Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are never many, never enough of them, but there are men born into the world with a gaze fixed on the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Exactly, I repeated myself. I believe we do it all the time. We always take up certain elements again. How can it… — 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
