Welles

Famous quotes containing the word welles:

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)

“Everybody denies I am a genius—but nobody ever called me one!”
—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)