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

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 an….

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I wou….

I'm a lurid character!.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them..

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corru….

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me..

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have..

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man..

That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get ….

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

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 fun….

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to se….

I have an unfortunate personality..

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appea….

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him..

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, ….

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying….

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..

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them..

FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'..