Quote of the Week

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be not short cuts.

-Mary Pickford

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The greatest difficulty in realizing my own ideas forced me to sometimes play the leading role in my films. . . .I was a star without knowing I was one, since the term did not yet exist.

-Georges Méliès


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About Citizen Kane (1941):

It’s not like any movie made at that time. It’s very much ahead of its time. In fact, you could say it was, you know, 40 years ahead of its time.

-Peter Bogdanovich

Orson was doing a biographical film and didn’t realize it.

-Robert Wise

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I was a little nervous going to see him. . .because he was known as a womanizer. There's a story about him chasing Judy Holliday around his desk until she finally pulled out a falsie and said, "here, feel this!"

-Coleen Gray, About Darryl Zanuck


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Good films, like good wine, improve with age

-King Vidor


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I've worked with many fine actresses.  But in my opinion, the best actress I ever worked with was Grace Kelly. . . . Her mind was razor-keen, but she was relaxed while she was doing it. 

-Cary Grant


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When a man finds himself sliding downhill, he should do everything to reach bottom in a hurry and pass out of the picture.

-Douglas Fairbanks

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