Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "
Orson Welles
Arrogant
Anybody
Company
Related Quotes:
" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "
Orson Welles
Refuge
Perfect
Movie
" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "
Orson Welles
Mother
Father
Story
" I have no great message to the world. "
Orson Welles
Message
Great
World
" 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. "
Orson Welles
Thought
Waiting
Work
" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "
Orson Welles
Love
Never
Boat
" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "
Orson Welles
You
Lunch
Country
" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
Orson Welles
Enemy
Limitations
Art
" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "
Orson Welles
Hate
Human
Nature
" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "
Orson Welles
Product
Create
Good
" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "
Orson Welles
Pretty
Protect
Feel
" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "
Orson Welles
Stand
You
Stand Up
" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "
Orson Welles
People
Mind
Know
" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "
Orson Welles
Care
Worry
Ordinary
" 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
Impress
Dating
Meat
" 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
Election
Depend
Politicians
" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "
Orson Welles
Audience
Too Much
Want
" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "
Orson Welles
Truth
You
Theatre
" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "
Orson Welles
Mature
Prove
Most
" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "
Orson Welles
Tree
Eden
Fake
" I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. "
Orson Welles
Faster
More
Miles
" 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
Religion
Love
Hate
" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "
Orson Welles
People
Stop
Doctor
" 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. "
Orson Welles
Play
Doing
Producer
" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
Orson Welles
Sanitary
Always
Broke
" 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
Laziness
American
Television
" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "
Orson Welles
Life
Middle
Society
" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "
Orson Welles
Good
Wrong
Something
" My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. "
Orson Welles
Who
Kind
Writes
" 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
Her
Love
Woman
" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
Orson Welles
Society
Law
Accept