304 Quotes by Orson Welles

I’d make my promises now if I wasn’t so busy arranging to keep them.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I’d shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

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

There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...

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.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn’t until middle age.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I’ve only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.