Quotes By 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.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

I have an unfortunate personality.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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