Orson Welles Quotes

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love 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.
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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 people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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 the ground that has been left fallow.
'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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 reality there are few left.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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.
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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 for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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Orson Welles
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06 May, 1915
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10 October, 1985
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