Orson Welles Quotes

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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.

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

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.