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
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
If there hadnt been women wed still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. – Orson Welles
Were born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that were not alone. – Orson Welles
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early