Orson Welles

"I like to work with people I like to be with."

"The actor is not a leader; the leader is an actor."

"Youth is the most natural state of being."

"A lie told often enough becomes accepted as truth."

"I think that I am a poet, and poets don't usually make any money."

"The trouble with everybody is not with the things they don't know, but with the things they know for sure that just aren't so."

"When you are older, you realize that everything is political."

"I've never been content to simply observe the world."

"Patience is the most beautiful ornament of a saint."

"I miss the old days of Hollywood when people worked together."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better off than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"Human nature is wonderfully plastic and trainable."

"I am not a producer of culture; I am a consumer of culture."

"The truth is a fire, and lies are smoke."

"Every time you hear a knock on your door, you might be opening it to a new world."

"A bad king is better than no king at all."

"Art is the language of the heart."

"I would rather be a bad memory than a good one."

"The worst of times can bring out the best in people."

"Nothing is ever final in art."

"I believe that there are truths beyond the reach of reason."

"To be an artist is to be constantly dissatisfied."

"The world is not getting worse; it's getting more honest."

"Every man is going to die, but the work lives on."

"I have always been most interested in the character of a human being."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"Power corrupts, but power also clarifies."

"The biggest waste of energy is worrying about what other people think."

"I love the old masters because they understood that beauty and violence are often intertwined."

"A man deserves respect for his intentions, not his accomplishments."