Orson Welles

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

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

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

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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I have an unfortunate personality.

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.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it — how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.