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.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESDon’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESIf 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 WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESI don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
ORSON WELLESWhen you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLESWe’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 WELLESI have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESThere are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES