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

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
- Orson Welles Quote

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
- Orson Welles Quote

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
- Orson Welles Quote

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

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
- Orson Welles Quote

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
- Orson Welles Quote

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
- Orson Welles Quote

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
- Orson Welles Quote

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
- Orson Welles Quote

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
- Orson Welles Quote

I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
- Orson Welles Quote

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles Quote

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.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
- Orson Welles Quote

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- Orson Welles Quote

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
- Orson Welles Quote

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

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Orson Welles Quote

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
- Orson Welles Quote

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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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

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
- Orson Welles Quote

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
- Orson Welles Quote

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Orson Welles Quote

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
- Orson Welles Quote

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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