--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Orson Welles" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Orson Welles. Plus more from Orson Welles and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/orson-welles-1628_classic_there-are-a-thousand-ways-of-playing-a-g_48329.jpg" --- > [There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/there-are-a-thousand-ways-of-playing-a-good-classic-if-it-were/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/orson-welles-1628_classic_there-are-a-thousand-ways-of-playing-a-g_48329.jpg) > [If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/if-i-had-only-one-film-in-the-world-to-save-it-would-be-grand-illusion/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/orson-welles-1628_cinema_if-i-had-only-one-film-in-the-world-to-s_492782.jpg) > [I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-d-make-my-promises-now-if-i-wasn-t-so-busy-arranging-to-keep-them/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/454/orson-welles-1628_arranging_i-d-make-my-promises-now-if-i-wasn-t-so_2423991.jpg) > [Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/husbands-should-revolt-from-time-to-time-even-the-best-circus-number/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/orson-welles-1628_beast_husbands-should-revolt-from-time-to-time_389487.jpg) > [If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/if-i-want-to-pursue-the-art-of-painting-or-music-or-writing-or/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/orson-welles-1628_art_if-i-want-to-pursue-the-art-of-painting_1761763.jpg) > [Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/hollywood-expects-you-to-experiment-but-on-a-film-that-makes-money/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/orson-welles-1628_blame_hollywood-expects-you-to-experiment-but_780506.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/never-expect-justice-in-this-world-that-is-not-part-of-god-s-plan/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98d/orson-welles-1628_bad-luck_never-expect-justice-in-this-world-that_699456.jpg) > [It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/it-would-be-so-much-better-if-the-critics-would-come-not-on-first/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/orson-welles-1628_critic_it-would-be-so-much-better-if-the-critic_3128798.jpg) > [One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/one-should-make-movies-innocently-the-way-adam-and-eve-named-the/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d4/orson-welles-1628_adam_one-should-make-movies-innocently-the-wa_1972166.jpg) > [Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/hollywood-is-hollywood-there-s-nothing-you-can-say-about-it-that-isn/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f18/orson-welles-1628_bitter_hollywood-is-hollywood-there-s-nothing-y_1471128.jpg) > [ Even if I'd stayed \[in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'\] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/even-if-i-d-stayed-in-the-us-to-finish-the-magnificent-ambersons-i/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffb/orson-welles-1628_committees_even-if-i-d-stayed-in-the-us-to-finish-t_1928965.jpg) > [That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/that-doesn-t-make-any-sense-sorry-there-s-no-known-way-of-saying-an/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b30/orson-welles-1628_forgive-me_that-doesn-t-make-any-sense-sorry-there_2243719.jpg) > [ The people who've done well within the \[Hollywood\] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires \[are in natural alignement with those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/the-people-who-ve-done-well-within-the-hollywood-system-are-the/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/orson-welles-1628_bad-time_the-people-who-ve-done-well-within-the-h_691566.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Orson Welles > [The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/the-two-things-you-cannot-do-effectively-on-stage-are-pray-and/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/there-are-a-thousand-ways-of-playing-a-good-classic-if-it-were/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-am-essentially-a-hack-a-commercial-person-if-i-had-a-hobby-i-would/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/the-essential-is-to-excite-the-spectators-if-that-means-playing/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/there-are-three-intolerable-things-in-life-cold-coffee-lukewarm/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-m-extremely-surprised-to-learn-that-a-story-which-has-become/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-hate-women-hate-them-generally-not-in-particular-but-in-an-abstract/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/when-television-came-along-i-d-already-done-more-than-10-years-of/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/look-at-the-real-prodigies-and-i-look-like-nothing-compared-to-them/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/the-laws-and-the-stage-both-are-a-form-of-exhibitionism/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/in-the-theater-there-are-1-500-cameras-rolling-at-the-same-time-in/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/in-italy-for-30-years-under-the-borgias-they-had-warfare-terror/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [I would rather be on the set than doing anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-would-rather-be-on-the-set-than-doing-anything/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-prefer-people-who-rock-the-boat-to-people-who-jump-out/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) > [If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/if-i-don-t-like-somebody-s-looks-i-don-t-like-them/) [Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/orson-welles/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Orson Welles", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. 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