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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

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.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

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.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

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.

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

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.

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

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.