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Top 160 Orson Welles Quotes (2025 Update)
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Orson Welles Quote: “I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.”

151. “I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “I would rather be on the set than doing anything.”

152. “I would rather be on the set than doing anything.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “I’m a lurid character!”

153. “I’m a lurid character!”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”

154. “Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.”

155. “Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.”

156. “The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.”

— Orson Welles

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

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

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.”

158. “I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time – in the cinema, only one.”

159. “In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time – in the cinema, only one.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle.”

160. “Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them.”

161. “If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.”

162. “One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.”

163. “I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.”

164. “In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “There are laws against peddling dope, there can be laws against peddling race hate. But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American boasts, but race hate is not an opinion, it’s a phobia. It isn’t a viewpoint, race hate is a disease. In a people’s world, the incurable racist has no rights. He must be deprived of influence in a people’s government. He must be segregated, as he himself would segregate the colored and semitic peoples. As we now segregate the leprous and the insane.”

165. “There are laws against peddling dope, there can be laws against peddling race hate. But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American boasts, but race hate is not an opinion, it’s a phobia. It isn’t a viewpoint, race hate is a disease. In a people’s world, the incurable racist has no rights. He must be deprived of influence in a people’s government. He must be segregated, as he himself would segregate the colored and semitic peoples. As we now segregate the leprous and the insane.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor’s capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.”

166. “All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor’s capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.”

167. “You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “The stories told about him were endless and legion; were they not produced by the fertile brains of those gossip columnists who must daily dish up a ration of jokes, slanders, insinuations, sly digs for the anonymous multitude concerning whom nobody ever bothers to write anything?”

168. “The stories told about him were endless and legion; were they not produced by the fertile brains of those gossip columnists who must daily dish up a ration of jokes, slanders, insinuations, sly digs for the anonymous multitude concerning whom nobody ever bothers to write anything?”

— Orson Welles

Orson Welles Quote: “I don’t want any description of me to be accurate. I want it to be flattering.”

169. “I don’t want any description of me to be accurate. I want it to be flattering.”

— Orson Welles

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