Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
ORSON WELLESPopularity 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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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