03c. 1934 ADMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles / quote ↗
04c. 1934 ADYou know what the fellow said – 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 that produce? The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles / quote ↗
05c. 1934 ADA toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.Orson Welles / quote ↗
06c. 1934 ADIn my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.Orson Welles / quote ↗
07c. 1934 ADWomen are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I’ve never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn’t have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am.Orson Welles / quote ↗
10c. 1934 ADWhat's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or otherOrson Welles / quote ↗
11c. 1934 ADStyle is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damnOrson Welles / quote ↗
12c. 1934 ADYou're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.Orson Welles / quote ↗
13c. 1934 ADIf you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!Orson Welles / quote ↗
14c. 1934 ADWe’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.Orson Welles / quote ↗
15c. 1934 ADI dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.Orson Welles / quote ↗
16c. 1934 ADEvery actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.Orson Welles / quote ↗
17c. 1934 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1934 ADOur works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.Orson Welles / quote ↗
20c. 1934 ADA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.Orson Welles / quote ↗
21c. 1934 ADWe'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 / quote ↗
22c. 1934 ADI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.Orson Welles / quote ↗
23c. 1934 ADNow 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1934 ADDid you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.Orson Welles / quote ↗
