304 Quotes by Orson Welles

I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring – and it didn’t.

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

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee – may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

You’re beautful. Yes you are, you’re very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

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

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don’t mean a conceit of the producer.