My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESI’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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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.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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