black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles

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
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES

Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLES

Country Food Yourself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES

People Stupidity World Worst
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLES

Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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 WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
ORSON WELLES

Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
ORSON WELLES

Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES

Hate Kind Man Myself
I 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 WELLES

Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLES

Man Movie Production Train
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLES

End Forever Human Nature Original
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLES

Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes