Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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?

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.