Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

I never said I was a genius.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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

I started at the top and worked my way down.

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.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.