Orson Welles

"We live in an age when the simple act of paying attention is revolutionary."

"Everybody nowadays seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious about losing time so that they have no time to live."

"The very rich are different—they have more money than other people."

"Idealism is the noble toga that political crime drapes over itself."

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

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

"A man is not a failure because he has not achieved success. A man is a failure if he has not tried."

"The one thing that critics will never forgive is if you make money from art."

"I would rather be a great man for an hour than an average man for a lifetime."

"Fear is the enemy of progress, and progress is the only antidote to fear."

"We fear the unknown, but we should fear the known becoming unknown."

"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."

"I found out that if you're going to win games, you have to keep fighting till the last out."

"Every true magic trick consists of more than one part."

"Life is too short to spend it worrying about what other people think."

"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a show business personality on television."

"Integrity is something that can't be given. It can only be created."

"If I want the audience to weep, I must weep first."

"The challenge of any enterprise is to stay ahead of yesterday."

"We're born alone, live alone, and die alone. Only through our love and friendship do we create the illusion we're not."

"The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, but it's also the first refuge of the coward."

"Everything is true. Everything anybody has ever thought."

"You may despise an enemy, but you must not cheat him."

"I've always been fascinated by the power of stories to change the world."

"The actor's responsibility is to serve the character and the story, not himself."

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"In my opinion, there are no uninteresting things in the world."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"I believe in the power of imagination to transform reality."