304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

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

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

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.