Orson Welles Quotes

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

I'm humble, because I live quite humbly.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.