The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles
Personally, I dont like a girlfriend to have a husband. If shell fool her husband, I figure shell fool me. – Orson Welles
Now Im an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. – Orson Welles
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. – Orson Welles
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber