I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. - Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. - Orson Welles
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
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Orson Welles
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. - Orson Welles
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. - Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! - Orson Welles
Gluttony is not a secret vice. - Orson Welles
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. - Orson Welles
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. - Orson Welles
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. - Orson Welles
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. - Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. - Orson Welles
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. - Orson Welles
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. - Orson Welles
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn - Orson Welles