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

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

"The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left."

"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?"

"A steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The only limit to human potential is every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."