Famous Quotes

Quotes by Orson Welles

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
• 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.
• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
• 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.
• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
• 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.
• 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.
• I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
• 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.
• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
• 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.
• 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.
• Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
• 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.