304 Quotes by Orson Welles

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.

There are laws against peddling dope, there can be laws against peddling race hate. But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American boasts, but race hate is not an opinion, it’s a phobia. It isn’t a viewpoint, race hate is a disease. In a people’s world, the incurable racist has no rights. He must be deprived of influence in a people’s government. He must be segregated, as he himself would segregate the colored and semitic peoples. As we now segregate the leprous and the insane.

When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I’ve always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Many would never speak with a full mouth, but do it with an empty head.

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.