Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welleswas an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar, a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds", one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane, consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CityKenosha, WI
CountryUnited States of America
I have no great message to the world.
I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
We will sell no wine before its time.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.