Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

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

“I never said I was a genius.”

“I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.”

“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.”

“I have no great message to the world.”

“I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.”

“I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.”

“When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.”

“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.”

“See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.”