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Orson Welles Quotes

«The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Art | Keywords: limitations
«Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Movies | Keywords: directing, mediocre, movie
«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.»
«I started at the top and worked my way down.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: My Way, top down, worked
«Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senat.»
Author: 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.»
«Gluttony is not a secret vice.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Vice | Keywords: gluttony
«They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: mud, mud pie, pies, universities
«Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Race | Keywords: abandonment
«Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movies»

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