"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— 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 they produce? The cuckoo clock."
— Orson Welles

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
— Orson Welles

"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
— Orson Welles

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "
— Orson Welles

" 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."
— Orson Welles

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

"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."
— Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."
— Orson Welles

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
~ Orson Welles The Third Man
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— Orson Welles

"Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of."
— Orson Welles

"A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army."
— Orson Welles

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

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
— Orson Welles

"You are born alone, you live alone, and you die alone. Only through love and friendship can you create the illusion that you are not entirely alone."
— 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."
— Orson Welles

"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.


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— Orson Welles