Welles

Famous quotes containing the word welles:

    Captain Hank Quinlan: C’mon, read my future for me.
    Tanya: You haven’t got any.
    Captain Hank Quinlan: Hmmm. Whadya mean?
    Tanya: Your future is all used up.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    Perhaps a man like you can’t realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. Do you imagine it’s pleasant to be ashamed of something you can’t even remember?
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    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)