Orson Welles Quotes

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agn...

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in ...

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create th...

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

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terr...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or oth...

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civili...

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and la...

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll...

I have an unfortunate personality.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create th...

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium ...

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the litt...

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't co...

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

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...

Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool ...

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't hav...

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create th...

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.