Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

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

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

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.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

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