Entertainment Quotes - Page 31

It was written without fear and without research.

Dorothy Parker

Art, Research, Written

Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Salvador Dali

Art, Vanity, Right Now

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Ideas, Painter

Quoted in Truth, Jan. 1890

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When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

George Burns

Art, Keys, Want

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George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Oscar Levant

Falling In Love, Art, Love You

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Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

Antoine Rivarol

Art, Nice, Dull

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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

Dorothy Parker

Art, Missing, Gallant

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If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

Edmund Waller

Art, Merit, Length

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A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

George Ade

Art, Musical, Comedy

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If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Phil Crane

Art, Play, President

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It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

Robert Benchley

Art, Play, Actors

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Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

Fred Allen

Art, Orange, Hollywood

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It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

Sylvia Sidney

Dream, Art, Kings

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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Art, Idiot

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The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

Cecil B. DeMille

Art, Years, Two

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The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Humphrey Bogart

Art, Dollars, Hell

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Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Rex Reed

Art, Sound, Paper

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[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Ethel Merman

Art, Hinges

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I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

Steve Martin

Art, Disgusting, Humans

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Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Oscar Levant

Art, Iron

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The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Art, Drama, Blood

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Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.

Fay Wray

Art, Men, Ideas

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Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

Will Rogers

Running, Art, Hurt

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I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

Elvis Presley

Art, Tired, Guy

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I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

Dolly Parton

Art, Hair, Shoes

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