Quotes by Orson Welles

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.