Orson Welles

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

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

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.