Orson Welles quotes

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.

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.

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

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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.

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.

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

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

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.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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.'

I have an unfortunate personality.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.