[On why she wouldn`t work with Orson Welles] "I can`t win working with Welles. If the picture`s a huge hit he`ll get the credit, and if it`s a flop, I`ll be blamed."
Carole Lombard
[On Orson Welles] He was not an extravagant director. I mean, `Warren Beatty` can spend $60 million making Reds (1981) a half hour too long and it crosses nobody`s lips that that`s too much money.
Charlton Heston
[on John Ford] Orson Welles was once asked which American directors most appealed to him. "The old masters," he replied. "By which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Well, I studied "Young Mr. Lincoln," for example. As I say, John Ford had a big ...
Elia Kazan
I did Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert down in Buenos Aires, and I stunk. I was infatuated with Orson Welles` filmography at the time, so I wanted to see if I could make my voice as low as his, and I succeede...
John McGinley
I`m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It`s become so much about personality.
Skeet Ulrich
Directing is the provenance of younger guys. When I broke into film, I had no specific genius. I was just young. That`s how I did it. The studios feel that movies are all about a youth movement, and they always have. That`s why Orson Welles got to make Ci...
William Friedkin
[on working with Orson Welles on "Catch-22"] We were talking about Jean Renoir one day on the set and Orson said, very touchingly, that Renoir was a great man but that unfortunately Renoir didn`t like his pictures. And then he said, "Of course, if I were ...
Mike Nichols
[on working with Orson Welles on "Catch-22"] We were talking about Jean Renoir one day on the set and Orson said, very touchingly, that Renoir was a great man but that unfortunately Renoir didn`t like his pictures. And then he said, "Of course, if I were ...
Mike Nichols
[on working with Orson Welles on "Jane Eyre"] You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o`clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entour...
Joan Fontaine
[on working with Orson Welles on "Jane Eyre"] You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o`clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entour...
Joan Fontaine
I`m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It`s become so much about personality.
Spencer Tracy
[on Orson Welles] For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performa...
Ingmar Bergman
Am I Orson Welles? Obviously not. But 50 years from now, who knows how, as a person, I`ll have grown. I`ve already changed, from being a 26-year-old kid to a 38-year-old guy - I`m not a man yet, really. But as I get older, who knows how my experiences and...
Brett Ratner
[On Orson Welles] I`ve never liked Welles as an actor, because he`s not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the...
Ingmar Bergman
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn`t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
Eartha Kitt
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.
Mark Rydell
[On why she wouldn`t work with Orson Welles] "I can`t win working with Welles. If the picture`s a huge hit he`ll get the credit, and if it`s a flop, I`ll be blamed."
Carole Lombard
