I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
From Orson Welles
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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