Top 29 Orson Welles Quotes



I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

 

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

 

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

 

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows – his own.

 

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.

 

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other

 

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

 

You’re beautful. Yes you are, you’re very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

 

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

 

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.

 

I 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.

 

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

 

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.

 

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

 

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

 

We’re born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

 

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.

 

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

 

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.

 

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.

 

Race hate isn’t human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

 

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

 

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

 

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

 

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

 

I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies… Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.

 

Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.

 

Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.

 

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

 

 

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