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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

Love, Die, Through

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

Unique, Create, Own

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

Eye, Movies, Head

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

Movies, Ending, 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

Luck, Good Luck, Bad

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, Country, Ask

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

Mature, Prove, Most

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles

Gangster, Classy, Hollywood

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

Dating, Been, Still

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, Radio, Why

Top 10
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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, Depend, Donald

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

Diet, Other, Having

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

Interesting, Present, Which

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

Living, Bad, Going

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles

Back, Tell, About

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

Society, Middle, Middle Age

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

Two, Everybody, About

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

Nature, Hate, Race

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. Orson Welles

Ideas, Words, Follow

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny, Unfortunate

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

Hate, Television, Stop

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

Think, Always, I Think

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

Think, Always, Cops

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

Critics, Eloquence, Notion

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. Orson Welles

Anybody, Arrogant, Speaks

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. Orson Welles

Law, Society, Normal

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