Orson Welles Men Quotations

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.