Joseph Cotten Quotes

I didn`t care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do.

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane (1941) as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man (1949) - and I`m in all of them.

(on Orson Welles) I know a little about Orson`s childhood and seriously doubt if he ever was a child.

My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: "I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending."

I was a so-called star because of my limitations and that was always the case. I couldn`t do any accents. So I had to pretend. Luckily I was tall, had curly hair and a good voice. I only had to stamp my foot and I`d play the lead -- because I couldn`t play character parts.

(on making Citizen Kane (1941) with Orson Welles) Orson must have been about 22 then and I still think he`s one of the greatest directors in the world. I don`t know why people regard him as a difficult man. He was the easiest, most inspiring man I`ve ever worked with. He was the only one who seemed to know what he was doing because we were all virgins on that picture.

(on Bette Davis) I loved working with her.

The victim was sliding sideways on the southbound lane, sliding north toward traffic,

(My wife) told me one of the sweetest things one could hear-"I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending."

Witnesses said it was fully engulfed in flames. I had never seen a car like that one. It melted stuff to the asphalt.