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 some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good… — 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
