Orson Welles

"The biggest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."

"I have an absolute faith in the existence of the audience."

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

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

"Everybody denies I am a communist."

"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them much."

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."

"Organizations are like organisms; they must evolve or perish."

"I'm a filmmaker, and I want to continue being a filmmaker."

"We are all actors, but it's up to us to determine the quality of our performance."

"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man."

"I feel like I want to keep working. I'm not ready to stop making movies."

"The privilege of life is being who you are."

"Somebody keeps leaving messes on my floor. It's not me."

"I know what I want to say; the problem is making it heard."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he's really very good."

"If you want to make a film, steal a camera and steal film."

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"Prosperity is the best protector of the principles of liberty."

"As for the truth, I wanted my films to be the truth twenty-four times a second."

"A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army."

"In the absence of a miracle, I would say hard work and perseverance are the keys to success."

"The arts are not a way to make a living, they are a very human way of making life worth living."

"A talent is a created thing, not born."

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

"If there is a future for me, it is in music, not in the cinema."

"I have all the equipment needed to achieve whatever I want."

"The most important thing is the work."

"Actors should never become too famous."

"American motion pictures are selling America to the world."