Orson Welles Biography

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

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

“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.”

“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.”

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

“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.”

“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”