304 Quotes by Orson Welles

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.