Orson Welles Quotes

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles Quotes

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

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. – Orson Welles Quotes

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles Quotes

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 Quotes

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him. – Orson Welles Quotes

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one! – Orson Welles Quotes

Fake is as old as the Eden tree. – Orson Welles Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice. – Orson Welles Quotes

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. – Orson Welles Quotes

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 Quotes

I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. – Orson Welles Quotes

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them. – Orson Welles Quotes

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. – Orson Welles Quotes

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 Quotes

I have an unfortunate personality. – Orson Welles Quotes