black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLES

Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLES

Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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 WELLES

Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
I 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 WELLES

Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLES

Age Old Sick Yourself
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

Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLES

Myself Start Way Work
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLES

Camera Record World
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLES

Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLES

Choice Myself People
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLES

Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLES

Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
ORSON WELLES

Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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

Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
ORSON WELLES

Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Future 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 WELLES

Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes