There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

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

I'm a lurid character!