I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle.
My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.