Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

“I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.”

“I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.”

“If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.”

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

“I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.”

“People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”