Orson Welles

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."

"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."

"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."

"I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time."

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

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

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

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

"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."

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

"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

"When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society."