The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. - Orson Welles
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. - Orson Welles
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. - Orson Welles
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. - Orson Welles
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. - Orson Welles
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. - Orson Welles
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. - Orson Welles
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. - Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles