I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. Orson Welles More Quotes by Orson Welles More Quotes From Orson Welles The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. Orson Welles stageprayingtwo Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. Orson Welles fillingstudiosneeds As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. Orson Welles fightingsittinguse 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 daguerreotypes that come to mind. Orson Welles two-year-oldspeopleyears I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. Orson Welles camerasactorsdecision I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. Orson Welles ablechildrenyears I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. Orson Welles haterealthinking 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. Orson Welles linesrealnight There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Orson Welles theatercenturycivilization A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. Orson Welles toaststermknows 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. Orson Welles luxurysexthinking I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. Orson Welles boresprayingwant I have no great message to the world. Orson Welles messagesworld Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. Orson Welles ecstasycelluloidscene I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners. Orson Welles should-haveadventurechildren Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! Orson Welles denygenius 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. Orson Welles phoneswaitingyears I never said I was a genius. Orson Welles geniussaid I would rather be on the set than doing anything. Orson Welles If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars! Orson Welles wantwritingart
