Orson Welles Play Quotations

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

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

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.