Orson Welles Quotes

American - Actor May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

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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.

Friendship, Love, Alone, Moment, Live

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Style, Yourself, Unique, Create, Own

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

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

Happy, You, Ending, Movies, Story, Stop

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

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

Good, Eye, Camera, Movies, Never, Film

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. - Orson Welles

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

Good, Good Luck, People, Luck, Justice

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

Myself, Hate, Live, Face, People, Think

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Cinema, Editing, Room, Film, Invention

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.

Women, Dating, Eating, Impress, Cave

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man, Animal, Always, Temper, Reason, Act

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. - Orson Welles

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

You, Lunch, Country, Your, Ask

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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Gangster, Classy, Hollywood, Invention

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

Man, Bond, Never, America, Your, Mean

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

Believe, I Believe, Everyone, Shoot

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

Me, Doctor, People, Diet, Stop, Three

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Hate, Time, Step, Think, Artist, Always

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

Nature, Hate, Human Nature, Race, Human

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.

Love, Hate, Religion, Great, Respect

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Like, Film, Very, Few, Colonists, Colony

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

You, Stand Up, Bad, Stand, Know, Luxury

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

Myself, Me, You, Treat, Long, Control

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

Simple, Think, You, Famous, Dumb, Stop

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.

Funny, Personality, Unfortunate

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Life, Mature, Trying, Prove, Most, Spent

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Live, Me, You, Us, Everything, Two

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.

Election, Depend, Duck, Politicians

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

Good, I Am, Gentleman, Me, Evening, You

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