Gregory Arkadin:
I knew what I wanted. That's the difference between us. In this world there are those who give and those who ask. Those who do not care to give... those who do not dare to ask. You dared. But you were never quite sure what your were asking for.
--Orson Welles (as Gregory Arkadin) in Mr. Arkadin
--Orson Welles (as Gregory Arkadin) in Mr. Arkadin
Harry Lime:
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
--Orson Welles (as Harry Lime) in The Third Man
--Orson Welles (as Harry Lime) in The Third Man
Harry Lime:
What did you want me to do? Be reasonable. You didn't expect me to give myself up... 'It's a far, far better thing that I do.' The old limelight. The fall of the curtain. Oh, Holly, you and I aren't heroes. The world doesn't make any heroes outside of your stories.
--Orson Welles (as Harry Lime) in The Third Man
--Orson Welles (as Harry Lime) in The Third Man
John Andrew MacDonald:
Here is the one you wait for. No other man is your husband.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Tomorrow is Forever
--Orson Welles (as ) in Tomorrow is Forever
John Andrew MacDonald:
Would you take away the father he has, only to tell him his real father is dead, and leave him with no father at all?
--Orson Welles (as ) in Tomorrow is Forever
--Orson Welles (as ) in Tomorrow is Forever
Jonathan Lute:
It's one of the 32 known Vermeers - 80 of which are in America.
--Orson Welles (as ) in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
--Orson Welles (as ) in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
Jonathan Lute:
What are you going to do, anyway?
Andrew Quint: I'm going to find an honest job.
Jonathan Lute: Silly boy. There aren't any.
--Orson Welles (as ) in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
Andrew Quint: I'm going to find an honest job.
Jonathan Lute: Silly boy. There aren't any.
--Orson Welles (as ) in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
Jonathan Wilk:
If there is any way of destroying hatred and all that goes with it, it's not through evil and hatred and cruelty, but through charity, love, understanding.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Compulsion
--Orson Welles (as ) in Compulsion
Macbeth:
Arm, arm, and out! There is no flying hence, nor tarrying here. I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate of the world Were now undone. Ring the alarum bell! Blow, wind, come wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back!
--Orson Welles (as Macbeth) in Macbeth
--Orson Welles (as Macbeth) in Macbeth
