If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

— Orson Welles

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

— Orson Welles

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

— Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.

— Orson Welles

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

— Orson Welles

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

— Orson Welles

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

— Orson Welles

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

— Orson Welles

Now I'm 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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

— Orson Welles