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You Quotes by Orson Welles
- If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
- When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
- Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
- They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
- Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
- Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
- I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves.…
- I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me…
- The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
- The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide