At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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’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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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!
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