Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Orson Welles
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 to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.
Orson Welles
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.