Quote

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

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
Politician
Intelligent
Stupid
Politics
Wish
Enough
People
Dumb

More quotes by Orson Welles

Image
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
Image
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
Image
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson Welles
Image
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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 my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
Orson Welles
Image
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
Orson Welles
Image
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
Image
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
Image
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
Image
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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
My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
Orson Welles