Quote

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
Actor
Character Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Librettist
Magician
Playwright
Radio Personality
Kenosha
Wisconsin
George Orson Welles
Justice
Good
People
Unlucky
Gambling
Luck
Gets
Nobody

More quotes by Orson Welles

Image
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
Orson Welles
Image
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
Orson Welles
Image
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
Image
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Orson Welles
Image
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
Orson Welles
Image
It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
Orson Welles
Image
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles
Image
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
Orson Welles
Image
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
Image
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
Orson Welles
Image
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Orson Welles
Image
I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
Orson Welles
Image
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
Image
In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
Orson Welles
Image
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
Image
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
Orson Welles
Image
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles
Image
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles
Image
If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
Orson Welles