Welles

Famous quotes containing the word welles:

    Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
    Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
    Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    The day after he’d met her, he told me about her. He said she was a cross-section of the American public.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    Thompson: Nothing particular the matter with him, they tell me, just ...
    Bernstein: Just old age. It’s the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don’t look forward to being cured of.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)