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, Alone, Live, 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, Own

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. Orson Welles

Best, Successful, Worst, Most, Large

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

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny, Personality, Unfortunate

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

Justice, Good, Luck, People, Good 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, Head, Film

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, Hollywood, Classy, Invention

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

Nature, Hate, Human Nature, Race, Human

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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. Orson Welles

Myself, Treat, Control, Me, Long, You

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

Life, Trying, Prove, Mature, Most, Spent

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

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, Think, Face

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

Interesting, Present, Biography, Which

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, Absence

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, Impress, Meat

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, Us

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

Hate, Eating, Stop, Television, Much

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, Religion, Hate

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

Look, Say, Ought, Misbehave, Could

Gluttony is not a secret vice. Orson Welles

Secret, Vice, Gluttony

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. Orson Welles

American, Movies, Laziness, Television

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

People, Doctor, Me, Three, Diet, Stop

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, Something, Isolated

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. Orson Welles

Moment, Child, Me, You, Know, Strange

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