304 Quotes by Orson Welles

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

There’s no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.

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.

There are no villains who doesn’t have his reasons.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don’t believe much in accomplishment.

One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.