Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
Orson Welles
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Firsts
Wasn
First
Middle
Thing
Heard
Crib
Never
Word
Whispered
Age
Occurred
Stills
Ears
Still
Genius
Ever
Inspiration
More quotes by Orson Welles
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
Orson Welles
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
Orson Welles
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
Orson Welles
My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
Orson Welles
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect it's the aspect.
Orson Welles
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
Orson Welles
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
Orson Welles
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
Orson Welles
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
Orson Welles
I don't want any description of me to be accurate I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.
Orson Welles
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
Orson Welles
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles
