Best Orson Welles Words
- On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'' Boat
- One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. Always Get
- People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. Capacity
- The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Classy
- The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. Aquarium
- 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed. Bums
- The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. Conceit
- The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. Copulate
- There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Centuries
- There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. Biographer
- I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar… Money
- Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an… Amusing
- Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a… Actor
- In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.… Bloodshed
- I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly… Along
- 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 it. Get rid… Face
- Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's… Aesthete
- I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I… Able
- I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in… Audience
- The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate… Artist
- As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his… Actor
- I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying,… Essential
- I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. All
- Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of… Allocated
- I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and… Better
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