Quote

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

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
Eden
Fake
Tree

More quotes by Orson Welles

Image
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles
Image
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
Image
I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
Orson Welles
Image
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
Image
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Orson Welles
Image
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles
Image
I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles
Image
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
Orson Welles
Image
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Orson Welles
Image
I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
Orson Welles
Image
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
Orson Welles
Image
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
Orson Welles
Image
Human nature is eternal therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles
Image
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Orson Welles