Orson Welles

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles - 1966
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles - The Third Man, 1949
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