Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible. — 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… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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
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
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — 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
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't… — 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
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
![“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3f/orson-welles-1628_bad-time_the-people-who-ve-done-well-within-the-h_691566.jpg)
