Orson Welles quotes - Page : 3

" I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence. " # Men # Love # Men and Women

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. " # Politicians and Politics # Love # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. " # Acting and Actors # Books - Reading # Heart

" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. " # Theater # Family # Audiences

" 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 girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys. " # Women # Friends and Friendship # Cities and City Life

" I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by. " # Cinema # Progress # Age and Aging

" The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. " # Cinema # Acting and Actors # President

" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. " # Colleges and Universities # Teachers and Teaching # Education

" 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. " # Arts and Artists # Democracy # Peace

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. " # Food and Eating # Vice # Secrets