Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — 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
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
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
Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man… — 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
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
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold… — 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
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