Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
More Orson Welles Quotes
-
-
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES -
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLES -
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
ORSON WELLES -
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES -
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
ORSON WELLES -
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLES -
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLES -
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
ORSON WELLES -
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLES -
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
ORSON WELLES -
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLES