Please enable Javascript
This site requires Javascript be enabled to provide you the best experience. Some features may not be available with Javascript disabled!

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

Orson Welles Quotes

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

Loading...

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. Orson Welles

Love, Friendship, Alone

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. Orson Welles

Yourself, Unique, Style

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

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

Good, Justice, Luck

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. Orson Welles

Happy, Story, Movies

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. Orson Welles

Good, Eye, Movies

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? Orson Welles

Good, I Am, Gentleman

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

Women, Dating, Civilization

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. Orson Welles

Lunch, You, Country

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. Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles

Gangster, Classy, Hollywood

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, Duck, Politicians

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. - Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles

Art, Enemy, Limitations

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. Orson Welles

Accomplishment, More, Always

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

Look, Say, Misbehave

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

Fool, Husband, Dating

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

People, Doctor, Me

Fake is as old as the Eden tree. Orson Welles

Tree, Fake, Old

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

Cinema, Film, Invention

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

Meaning, Want, You

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

Life, Age, 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. Orson Welles

Money, Problem, Real

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny, Personality

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

Nature, Hate, Human Nature

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. - Orson Welles

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

Good, Artist, Wrong

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles

Hate, Television, Eating

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

Love, Respect, Great

Cite this Page: Citation

Find on Amazon: Orson Welles

Related Authors

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2017 BrainyQuote

Language: Español | Français

Loading...

Load more quotes