If I want the audience to weep, I must weep first. - Orson Welles

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

Orson Welles Art

Actor and Director American 1915–1985

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"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."

"The stage is my true home."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Living well means living properly."

"Art and music are the treasures of civilization"