Quotes by Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American film maker

Lived from: 1915 - 1985

Category: Movie Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 6 may 1915 Died: 10 october 1985

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

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  • Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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  • A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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  • Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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  • Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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  • Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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  • Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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  • Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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  • Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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  • I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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  • I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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  • I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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  • 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.
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  • I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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  • I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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  • I started at the top and worked my way down.
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  • I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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  • 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 girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
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  • If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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  • In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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  • My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
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What are the most famous quotes from Orson Welles?

The two most famous quotes from Orson Welles are:

  • "Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
  • "A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

When did Orson Welles live?

Orson Welles was born in 1915 and died in the year 1985.