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?

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

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.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.