You ain't heard nuthin' yet: Great Quotes about Movies & TV

Re Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)

ALEXANDER KORDA: "The remakes were two percent of the overall budget."

REPORTER: "And how much was that?"

ALEXANDER KORDA: "One hundred percent."

 

Critic James Agee on Tycoon (1947):

"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this movie; none of it under the right people.”

 

Leonard Maltin's review of Isn't It Romantic?:
"No."

 

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. Mel Gibson

 

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
John Garfield

 

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. - Cary Grant (who's real name is Archibald Leach)

 

Telegram to Cary Grant from Time Magazine:

HOW OLD CARY GRANT?

Grant's response:

OLD CARY GRANT FINE - HOW YOU?

When asked about this exchange later, Grant replied, "I never said that. But I wish I had."

 

Hahha. I always wondered how true this was.

 

Wizard Of Oz...
"That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions"
Bert Lahr

 

Mike Todd was a major celebrity in his day, producing Broadway shows and romancing stars (he married Liz Taylor). He's best remembered today for the Oscar-winning Around The World In 80 Days.

Todd hired screenwriter Art Cohn (The Set-Up) to ghostwrite his autobiography. To get material Cohn joined Todd on his private plane for a trip east from Hollywood.

Art Cohn and Mike Todd



The plane crashed in New Mexico. There were no survivors.

When Billy Wilder saw the headlines about the crash, he was pissed off. They were all about Todd, with Cohn barely mentioned, if he was mentioned at all.

"MIKE TODD DIES IN PLANE CRASH", he almost yelled.

Then after a long pause, he said softly, "Additional dying by Art Cohn."

 

Apologies, post deleted

 

"Whenever you play a second lead and lose the girl, you have to make your part interesting yet not compete with the leading man. There are few great second leads in this business. It's easier to play a lead - you can do whatever you want. If I'm good it always means the leading man has been generous." - Gig Young, 1966

 

"I never aged into a character actor. I'm just an old leading man." - Stewart Granger

 

“The guy you see on the screen really isn’t me. I’m Duke Morrison and I never was and never will be a film personality like John Wayne. I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I make a living out of him.”

 

I heard that same story about Gary Cooper...

 

That's completely wrong. Gary Cooper didn't say it.

It was actually Cary Grant who didn't say it.

 

"Viewed purely as drama, the war is somewhat disappointing." - D. W. Griffith, after touring the trenches in France, c. 1916-7

 

Alfred Hitchcock's response to a letter he received from a man who told him that his daughter would not bath after seeing Diabolique (1955) and now wouldn't shower after seeing Psycho...

"Send her to the dry cleaners".

 

“Being an actor is nothing special. Shirley Temple was doing it when she was four years old”. Katharine Hepburn

When told that Alfred Hitchcock said that actors should be treated like cattle, Jean Marsh (who was in “Frenzy”) said “he must be one of us, he keeps putting himself in his movies”.

 

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."

-- Fred Allen (attributed)