Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck. Orson Welles More Quotes by Orson Welles More Quotes From Orson Welles There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. Orson Welles women things-in-life coffee Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful. Orson Welles careful equal ignorance I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. Orson Welles late laziness television Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life. Orson Welles parts-of-life expression two I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob. Orson Welles dressing-up hate kind If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. Orson Welles diners restaurants talking I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right! Orson Welles new-york men years I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live. Orson Welles running trying looks The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. Orson Welles yawning jobs night I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable. Orson Welles abstract hate way The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered. Orson Welles artist directors years The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents. Orson Welles yawning jobs directors You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. Orson Welles very-beautiful film beautiful Fake is as old as the Eden tree. Orson Welles fake fake-people eden A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. Orson Welles army directors needs Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. Orson Welles simple stupid thinking I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. Orson Welles hours miles driving 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 truth white feelings 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 christmas roots fall Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone. Orson Welles illusion
