Favourite Actors and Actresses
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Classic
" I hate that name ['Garbo']...it reminds me of 'garbage!' "
― Howard Dietz, M.G.M Publicity Chief
"I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I."
― Greta Garbo
"If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much."
- Humphrey Bogart
"Unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence."
- Jean Arthur
"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value,
I'll deliver for you."
- Edward G. Robinson
"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young, you were lucky to have a bike."
- James Cagney
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself."
- Marlene Dietrich
"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
- Marlene Dietrich
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
- Katharine Hepburn
"Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego."
- Carole Lombard
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
- Marilyn Monroe
"It's better to be unhappy alone
than unhappy with someone - so far."
- Marilyn Monroe
"Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me."
- Julie Newmar
- Miriam Hopkins
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Contemporary ('70s/'80s/'90s-Present)
"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
- Patrick Stewart
"A 'mainstream film' is a film that 1000 people watch 100 times.
A 'cult film' is a film that 100 people watch 1000 times".
- Bruce Campbell
"I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process."
- John Cusack
"I think there's something in the human psyche that
we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the
candle and their wings get singed."
- Jeffrey Combs