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" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "
Orson Welles
Things
Stage
Pray
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" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "
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" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "
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Wish
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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "
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Teach
Today
Anything
" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "
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Hollywood
Invention
" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "
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Remember
Young
" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "
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Which
Ford
Mean
" I never said I was a genius. "
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Never
Said
Genius
" 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. "
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Election
Depend
Politicians
" 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.' "
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Her
Love
Woman
" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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Looks
Somebody
Like
" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "
Orson Welles
People
Short
True
" 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. "
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Impress
Dating
Meat
" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "
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Fool
She
Me
" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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Order
Now
Recognize
" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "
Orson Welles
Sitting
Fight
You
" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "
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Life
Middle
Society
" 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. "
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Real
Money
Class
" Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. "
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His
Bad
Everything
" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "
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Successful
Most
Worst
" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "
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Animal
Always
Act
" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "
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Hate
Human
Nature
" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "
Orson Welles
Stage
Both
Form
" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "
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People
Stop
Doctor
" 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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Christmas
Me
Tree
" I started at the top and worked my way down. "
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Down
Started
" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "
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Nobody
I Am
Genius
" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
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Society
Law
Accept
" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
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Sanitary
Always
Broke
" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "
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Look
Ought
Say
" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "
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Ideas
Losing
People