3 December 2020 Orson Welles Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Race hate isn’t human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles 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.
