Orson Welles

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."

"I don't take art as seriously as politics."

"An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities."

"But you can't emphasize "beef", that's like his wanting me to emphasize "in" before "July"! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The…"

"This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be; The Mercury Theat…"

"The people who’ve done well within the system are the people whose instincts, whose desires — who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don’t succeed — people who’…"

"I suppose you are a fool to do it , but if you happen to be more interested in the political question, than the size of your audience, then it doesn't matter."

"I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence."