The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between… — 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
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors… — 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
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual… — 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
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
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
