Orson Welles Quotes

Enjoy our collection of quotes by famous people like Orson Welles. George Orson Welles born on May 6, 1915 and died on October 10, 1985. He is best known as an American filmmaker, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Here are a couple of favorite quotes; "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.", and "I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

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

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles

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

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one
Orson Welles

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

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

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

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles






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