Best Orson Welles Quotations
- I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. Careful
- Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. Afford
- The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. Both
- At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. Appear
- If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. Allow
- The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. Artistically
- Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. Celluloid
- Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. Acting
- Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. Agents
- Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. Colonists
- Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. Business
- I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. Abandon
- I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. Gets Near
- I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. Allen
- I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. Accomplishment
- I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. Addiction
- I have no great message to the world. Great
- I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. Ford
- I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. All
- I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. Chekhov
- If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. All
- If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. Funny
- Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. Compared
- Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. Directing
- My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Actor
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