An homage to the Hollywood female stars with lots of celebrity photos and quotes.
“You see I don’t know much about acting. I’m an entertainer, or that is how I have always thought of myself in the past. So what I do in a film…is to try to react as honestly as I can to what people say to me in each situation.” — Ann-Margret Source: Stephen Franklin (1964) […]
“‘Wonder Woman’ was never developed to the point where she felt any emotions, but she was independent and did what she felt was right. But it was a character that existed before Lynda Carter. I’m glad to be doing other things. I would like to have seen ‘Wonder Woman’ develop a little more character.” — […]
“The lady who wear my turban, my funnee shoes and my treek jewelry, she gotta have the skinny face and the big-a-mouth like me, eh? After all, how would I going to look in hoop-skirts and Watteau hats, huh?” — Carmen Miranda Source (and accent): Duncan Underhill (1941) Photo: 1941
“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any.” — Jane Russell “They held up The Outlaw for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.” — Jane Russell “If my pictures were supposed to be sensual, they were sensual only in […]
“I may bite my lower lip and I may wiggle my hips a bit, but I’m not a carbon copy of anyone. And as far as Monroe is concerned, I don’t think there’s any need to defend my reputation. She has nothing that I don’t have.” — Mamie Van Doren in 1953. “I was […]
“I’ve stripped…nude scenes have nothing to do with modesty…you’re the only one exposed. Being unclothed is simply having nowhere to hide.” — Susan Sarandon Source: Marian Christie (1978) Photo: Pretty Baby (1978)
“I never knew until I came here that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.” — Jean Seberg commenting about her experience with Hollywood. “In many ways I’m very privileged. I only work with people who are good.” — Jean Seberg Source: […]
“I loved acting, but my agents never brought me scripts. I was worth a lot more to them on the road.” — Peggy Lee
“As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934. Picture is from the film, Baby Take a Bow (1934). With Warner Baxter.
“You need something more than good looks to have a good life.” — Stella Stevens “I didn’t apply myself at school and at 17 I was married. The day I discovered how uneducated I was, I decided to do something about it and it changed my life. As long as I live I never […]