Orson Welles

Actor

222 Quotes

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

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.

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

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

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

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

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

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

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

Semua orang tidak ada yang menyangkal bahwa saya jenius - tetapi tidak ada yang pernah memanggil saya jenius!

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.

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