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. Orson Welles

Friendship, Love, Live, Alone, Moment

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

Style, Yourself, Unique, Create, Others

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, Ending, Story, You, Movies, Stop

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, Good Luck, People, Luck

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, Camera, Movies, Never, Head

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, Ask, Your

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles

Gangster, Classy, Hollywood, Invention

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

Me, People, Doctor, Diet, Three, Stop

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny, Personality, Unfortunate

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, Editing, Invention, Critics

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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

Live, Me, You, Two, Everything, Out

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

Life, Trying, Prove, Mature, Most, Spent

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. Orson Welles

Present, Interesting, Biography, Which

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

Hate, Eating, Television, Stop, Peanuts

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

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

Art, Enemy, Absence, Limitations

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. Orson Welles

Today, You, Mud, Teach, Anything, Major

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

Film, Like, Colonists, Few, Very, Colony

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, Me, I Am, Gentleman, Name, Evening

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. Orson Welles

Live, Myself, Hate, People, Face, Think

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, Eating, Civilization

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, Depend, Politicians

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. Orson Welles

Remember, Artist, Young, Responsible

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, Great, Respect, Hate, Religion

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

Time, Hate, Step, Think, Artist, Out

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. Orson Welles

Work, Money, Think, Anything, Remembered

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

Man, Animal, Temper, Reason, Always, Act

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