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
I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. – Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. – Orson Welles
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. – 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