Orson Welles Quotes

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. Orson Welles

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. Orson Welles

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him. 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

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles

Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there. Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. Orson Welles

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – 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 they produce? The cuckoo clock! Orson Welles