Orson Welles Quotations | Page 2

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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.