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Orson Welles Quotes | Quotes said by Orson Welles

  • Orson Welles Quote #1

    A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.


  • Orson Welles Quote #2

    A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

  • Orson Welles Quote #3

    Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

  • Orson Welles Quote #4

    Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  • Orson Welles Quote #5

    Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

  • Orson Welles Quote #6

    I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  • Orson Welles Quote #7

    I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

  • Orson Welles Quote #8

    I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  • Orson Welles Quote #9

    I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

  • Orson Welles Quote #10

    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 say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

  • Orson Welles Quote #11

    I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

  • Orson Welles Quote #12

    I have an unfortunate personality.

  • Orson Welles Quote #13

    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, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  • Orson Welles Quote #14

    I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

  • Orson Welles Quote #15

    If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  • Orson Welles Quote #16

    If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

  • Orson Welles Quote #17

    If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  • Orson Welles Quote #18

    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 to God.

  • Orson Welles Quote #19

    My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  • Orson Welles Quote #20

    Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  • Orson Welles Quote #21

    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 them with medallions.

  • Orson Welles Quote #22

    On my tombstone, I want written, ‘He never did 'Love Boat!

  • Orson Welles Quote #23

    On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

  • Orson Welles Quote #24

    Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  • Orson Welles Quote #25

    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 finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. Be of good heart, cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

  • Orson Welles Quote #26

    Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

  • Orson Welles Quote #27

    Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

  • Orson Welles Quote #28

    The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

  • Orson Welles Quote #29

    The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  • Orson Welles Quote #30

    The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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