Orson Welles quotes

Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer renowned for his innovative work in theater, radio, and film. Famous for directing and starring in the classic film "Citizen Kane," he left a lasting influence on cinematic storytelling. He is remembered as a visionary artist with a bold, creative spirit. Here are 149 of his quotes:

Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Happiness is not a given-you have to constantly fight for it. And I think that when it comes, it's important to be able to accept it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. View quote
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. View quote
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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. View quote
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. View quote
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Gluttony is not a secret vice. View quote
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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. View quote
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. View quote
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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. View quote
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I try to be a Christian...I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. (Orson Welles)
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. View quote
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. View quote
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. View quote
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends. View quote
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I don't take art as seriously as politics. View quote
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. View quote
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. View quote
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. View quote
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The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success. (Orson Welles)
It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]. View quote
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That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless! View quote
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There's nothing you can say about it that isn't true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter - you're the one who sat down, and joined the game. View quote
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Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian. View quote
Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: May 6, 1915
Died: October 10, 1985
Quotes count: 149
Wikipedia: Orson Welles

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