"So one night we're in the Stork Club and Welles is asking me to recite things from Shakespeare. You know, he asks for…"

"My father once told me that the art of receiving a compliment is, of all things, the sign of a civilized man. He died…"

"I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with t…"

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further…"

"A story doesn't have to appeal to the heart; it can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your heart to be war…"

"Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great — I'm taking myself as a character — for the intellectuals and the m…"

"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelan…"

"Orson Welles hails a cab like God and tips like a Jesuit."