Orson Welles

“When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotype...”

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

“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.”

“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 be...”

“In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.”

“I have an unfortunate personality.”

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”