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…the discussion of security prompted actress Ginger Rogers to tell the group and the President, “Oh, I get scared for him”, and turning to Reagan, she said “because I love you so much, and we who love...
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“Too many divorces for so small a town. But then you mustn’t forget that Hollywood is a hard place to be happy unless you’re so absorbed in your work that you haven’t time to get into mischief. I do...
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“Acting’s just waiting for a custard pie. That’s all.” —Katharine Hepburn Lawren Stewart Harris, Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930 Humphrey Bogart, Dead Reckoning, 1947Screenplay by Steve Fisher,...
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“I have always had a special respect for Kathleen [Byron] ever since she pulled a gun on me. It was a revolver, a big one, U.S. Army issue, and it was loaded. A naked woman and a loaded gun are...
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“It wasn’t the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.”—Gloria Grahame Thomas EakinsAmerican painter and photographer (b. 1844, Philadelphia, d. 1916, Philadelphia)“Clara”c. 1900Oil on...
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“Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”—Gary Cooper Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)Esther at the Palace Gate, circa...
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“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.”—Joan Collins First Snow, 1959, Andrew Wyeth Lucien HervéParis, Without Leaving My Window, 1949 The Dinner, 1899,...
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“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”—Myrna Loy Interior (Model Reading), 1925, Edward Hopper Beatrice Pearson as Doris Lowry in Force of Evil,...
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“The bad girls were so much fun to play… The critics always said I acted best with a gun in my hand.”—Audrey Totter Maurice Denis (1870-1943)The Muses1893Oil on canvasH. 171.5; W. 137.5 cm© RMN-Grand...
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Irving Penn, Sophia Loren, New York City, 1959“I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I...
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“A woman’s hands gets me every time. More than her face, figure, clothes, anything. The girl who, when she smokes, makes the cigarette seem a part of her hand. The girl who, when she kisses you,...
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“I liked the strong characters. I don’t mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.”—Ida Lupino Andrew WyethTwo if by Sea,...
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“My mother wisely made very sure when I was young that I wouldn’t get big-headed about my looks. She said, “You have nice eyes, but they’re only nice as long as the expression in back of them is nice....
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“There’s a fine line between acting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and dead pan are getting...
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“The trouble with Hollywood is that the producers and agents are the aristocrats… which made actors who make their living in Hollywood usually feel they are some sort of scum. They looked for other...
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“Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.“—Gary Cooper Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)Portrait of a Venetian Woman1505Oil on...
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“Nobody knows anything.”—William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade Cary Elwes, The Princess Bride, 1987Screenplay by William GoldmanBased on The Princess Bride by William GoldmanRest in Peace...
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“Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”—Rosalind Russell Longaberger Headquarters, Frazeysburg, Ohio. “The Longaberger Company was an American...
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“Unlike writers or painters, we don’t sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, ‘How do I start? Where do I start?’ We’re given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to...
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“I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.”—Ava...
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