I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci… — 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
Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising. — 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
I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — 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
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 Image
