Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESI dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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The 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.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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