Orson Welles

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

—Orson Welles

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

—Orson Welles

There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

—Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

—Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

—Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.

—Orson Welles

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

—Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

—Orson Welles

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

—Orson Welles

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

—Orson Welles

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

—Orson Welles