304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

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

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.