30 Quotes By Orson Welles


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.
Orson Welles on religion

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.
Orson Welles on respect

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles on society

I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles on time

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles on time

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.
Orson Welles on truth

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.
Orson Welles on women

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.
Orson Welles on work

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles on christmas

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles on art