Golden Age Of Hollywood Quotes

“I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I am, at heart, a gentleman.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
― Judy Garland

“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
― Bette Davis

“Television is for appearing on, not looking at.”
― Noel Coward

“I wouldn't be caught dead marring a woman old enough to be my wife.”
― Tony Curtis

“I'm not young. What's wrong with that?”
― Vivien Leigh

“I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.”
― Jimmy Stewart

“We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.”
― Cary Grant

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand. But things weren’t entirely black—not yet. When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Tuesday you’re laughing again.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
― Darryl F. Zanuck

“I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”
― Truman Capote

“People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.”
― Tab Hunter

“Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.”
― Anthony Perkins

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
― Marlon Brando

“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies--because you never know when you'll have to work with them.”
― Lana Turner

“I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.”
― Clark Gable

“You’d be surprised what everyone in Hollywood got up to in those days.”
― Vincent Price

“Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.”
― Douglas Sirk

“The constructs of organized thought are all around us, the golden age will come when they are freed.”
― Tom Althouse

“Jeg delte værelse med nogle kommende skuespillere, da jeg først landede i Hollywood. Hvad så? Det betyder ikke, at jeg sov med dem. Og det betyder ikke, at jeg ikke gjorde det - selv om jeg ikke gjorde.”
― Tony Curtis