Famous Quotes / Orson Welles
33 Quotations by Orson Welles
- 21. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the ...
- 22. Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
- 23. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
- 24. Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
- 25. Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in ...
- 26. The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of ...
- 27. The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an ...
- 28. The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, an ...
- 29. The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
- 30. There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
- 31. They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
- 32. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create th ...
- 33. When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.