Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welleswas an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar, a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds", one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane, consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CityKenosha, WI
CountryUnited States of America
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''