Quotes by Orson Welles

“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch.”

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

“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. I...”

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you ...”

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”

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

“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”

“Were born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that were not alone.”

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.”

“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”