If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLESIf 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.
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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.
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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.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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