304 Quotes by Orson Welles

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

I knew all about the importance of dressmakers, because I'd spent my childhood with a woman permanently torn between the necessity of possessing beautiful clothes and the difficulty of paying for them.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

We come into the world alone, we die alone, we live alone. Love and friendship is the nearest thing that we can find to create the illusion that we are not totally alone

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

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.