Orson Welles Quotes

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

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

Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I’ve never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn’t have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

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

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

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

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.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.