Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESSee, 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 WELLESThe ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLESAt twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESIf there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLESThe director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
ORSON WELLESFriendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
ORSON WELLESWhat’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESI 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!
ORSON WELLESI don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLES