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?

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

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

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

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.