I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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