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, 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. Orson Welles

Happy, Ending, Story, Movies, You, Want

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, 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, Never, Film

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles

Gangster, Hollywood, Classy, Invention

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

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

Nature, Hate, Human Nature, Race, Human

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, Meat, Cave, Order

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

Life, Trying, Mature, Prove, Most, Spent

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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, Duck, Depend, Politicians

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

Stand Up, Living, Stand, Luxury, Know

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

Look, Say, Misbehave, Could, Ought

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. Orson Welles

Perfect, Mediocre, Directing, Movie

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. Orson Welles

Scene, Ecstasy, Really, Part, Celluloid

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles

Now, Sit, Order, Through, Recognize

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. Orson Welles

Money, I Am, Person, Hobby, Commercial

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. Orson Welles

Believe, I Believe, Possibilities, Shoot

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! Orson Welles

I Am, Me, Genius, Nobody, Everybody, Am

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, Should

I have an unfortunate personality. - Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles

Funny, Personality, Unfortunate

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

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, Me, Name, Gentleman, Evening

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

People, Me, Doctor, Diet, Three, Stop

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

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, You, Too Much, Want, More, Give

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