Best Orson Welles Lines
- I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't… Commercial
- I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's… Actor
- If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means… Control
- In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never… All
- In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at… Any
- Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace… Along
- See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think… Alike
- The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In… American
- 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 waiting… Along
- A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. Anybody
- A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. Army
- Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of. Age
- What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other Funny
- In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying… Absolutely
- I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I… Anybody
- You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. Beautful
- There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... Champagne
- I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy. All
- I don't think any word can explain a man's life. Any
- Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must… All
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Accordance
- I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Artist
- The basic and essential human is the woman Basic
- Hollywood died on me as soon as I got there. Died
- I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me, but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, Buster Keaton, and a hundred others. Bitter
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