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Quotes of Actors/Actresses
"He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house."
Zsa Zsa Gabor, speaking of her ex-husband
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
Bette Davis
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism, not quite the occupation of an adult."
Lawrence Olivier, English actor
"Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at."
Noel Coward
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid"
Hedy Lamarr
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katharine Hepburn
"You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else."
Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)
"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
Marlon Brando
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) US Actress. The "First Lady of the American Theatre"
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough".
Dinah Shore
"Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist."
James Garner
"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally."
Lillian Day
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
Julie Andrews, British actress
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."
Robert De Niro, American motion-picture actor
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings; they try to hide them."
Robert De Niro, American motion-picture actor
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
Bette Davis
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."
David Cronenberg Canadian film maker
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
Clint Eastwood
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox, actor
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified - if he does it right."
Bill Cosby
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"
Helen Hayes
"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
Katharine Hepburn
"So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable."
Christopher Reeve
"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked."
Paul Newman from the film 'Winning'
"A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust."
Nanette Newman, British Actress
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
"I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
Orson Welles
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
Peter Ustinov
"I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."
Laurence Olivier British actor (1907-1989)
When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles (1915-1985) actor, director, producer, writer He was considered a major film genius; noted for radio dramatization "War of the Worlds;"
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." Carrie FisherI think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.
Sylvester Stallone (1946-) American Actor
"I'd marry her myself, but my wife won't let me."
Actor Kirk Douglas, on his son Michael's new wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Mae West, American actress
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
Orson Welles (1915-1985) born on May 6 US actor, director, producer, writer He was considered a major film genius; noted for radio dramatization "War of the Worlds;" starred in "Citizen Kane," 1940.
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
Bette Davis (1908-1989) American Actress
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