Quotes by Orson Welles

The following are quotes from Orson Welles:

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

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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