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 WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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