Don Esteban:
[after getting a shove from behind from Borgia] My Lord!
Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!
Don Esteban: I was thinking.
Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect.
[Walking away]
Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!
Don Esteban: I was thinking.
Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect.
[Walking away]
Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
Walter of Gurnie:
Oh, how do we find your tent?
Bayan: Scholar, if any man in my army can't tell you where my tent is, our poetic young bowman can use him as a target.
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
Bayan: Scholar, if any man in my army can't tell you where my tent is, our poetic young bowman can use him as a target.
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
Bayan:
That's the only way you can ever sleep soundly, you know, when your enemy's sleep is eternal.
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
Bayan:
Well, it's worth something to be willing to die for something.
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
--Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose
Cardinal Wolsey:
You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts flat-on, without that horrible moral squint... With a little common sense you could have made a statesman.
--Orson Welles (as Cardinal Wolsey) in A Man for All Seasons
--Orson Welles (as Cardinal Wolsey) in A Man for All Seasons
Cesare Borgia:
[to Orsini] The great know only one law: the outcome justifies the act. Have you the stomach for greatness? The stomach and the appetite?
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
Cesare Borgia:
It is my belief that everything, even death, can be turned into profit.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
--Orson Welles (as ) in Prince of Foxes
Falstaff:
We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
--Orson Welles (as ) in Chimes at Midnight
--Orson Welles (as ) in Chimes at Midnight
Father Mapple:
Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
--Orson Welles (as Father Mapple) in Moby Dick
--Orson Welles (as Father Mapple) in Moby Dick
Gregory Arkadin:
Baroness, a fool is a man who pays twice for the same thing.
--Orson Welles (as Gregory Arkadin) in Mr. Arkadin
--Orson Welles (as Gregory Arkadin) in Mr. Arkadin
