Defying Quote by Eartha Kitt

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles”

— Mark Sisson

Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said…

— Christian McKay

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

— Christian McKay

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

— Max von Sydow

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it…

— Mark Rydell

I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it,…

— Judd Nelson

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

— Mercedes McCambridge

“We watched him use his spoon to mold the mashed potatoes on his plate into the shape of a volcanic mountain. He poured gravy…

— Don DeLillo

Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of…

— Werner Herzog

“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live…

— John Steinbeck

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the…

— Charles Kingsley

To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.

— Elif Batuman