Orson Welles/return To Hollywood 1956%e2%80%931959

Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles, return and/or hollywood:

    “Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    “I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Isn’t Hollywood a dump—in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)