Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Orson Welles

Orson Welles US actor & director (1915 - 1985)


Orson Welles -
- Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles -
- 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.

Orson Welles -
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Orson Welles - The Third Man, 1949
- 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.

Orson Welles -
- Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

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

Orson Welles - 1966
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

Orson Welles -
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.