Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

as close to a genius as anyone I have ever met.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.