Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESWhen you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
More Orson Welles Quotes
-
-
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.
ORSON WELLES -
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLES -
The 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 WELLES -
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
ORSON WELLES -
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLES -
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLES -
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLES -
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES -
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLES -
I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLES -
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLES -
If 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 WELLES -
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLES -
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLES -
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ORSON WELLES