The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Quote by Orson Welles

Topics: Orson Welles Quotes

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your...

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your...

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury...

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury...

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if...

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act...

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually...

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually...

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the...

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the...

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

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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

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

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic...

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic...

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to...

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to...

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

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

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