“I have no whine at fate. I began with nothing and have ended with more money than is good for one. . . I write because I love to. . . I have perhaps less academic training than any man who has ever succeeded at writing in America. . . I will never be the […]
“I’m the worst subject in the world to interview on what I know about women because I don’t pretend to know a thing about them, and I don’t believe that I ever will.” — John Gilbert Source: Alice L. Tildesley (1928) John Gilbert, Elinor Glyn, and Aileen Pringle pose for a candid photo for […]
“You know, the greatest thing about our business is that we’re allowed to see ourselves as others see us. Some of these kids see themselves and think, ‘O, gee, I look pretty good.’ What they don’t see is the loving photography, the singing, posture, dancing lessons that have been given them free. And the publicity. […]
“It’s kind of tragic sometimes to be a comic….in an age of wholesale laughter.” — Buster Keaton Source: Martin Regan (1930) Photo: Ruth Harriett Louise The Bell Boy (1918). Stars Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Buster Keaton Comedies advertisement, c. 1920. “I’ve had few dull moments and not too many sad and […]
“The worst thing you can do with money is save it.” — Jackie Gleason “I’m a [bleep] heel in a way. Maybe in many ways. I could never stand authority of any kind. And I despise the kind of conglomerate bureaucracy you deal with in television. They hope you put yourself in a […]
“Start every day with a smile, and get it over with.” — W.C. Fields Photo: Poppy (1936) “The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.” — W.C. Fields. “I’m beginning to understand those animals you read about, where […]
“The good die young, because they see it’s no use living if you have got to be good.” – John Barrymore Moving Picture World (1920). Charles Chaplin, John Barrymore and Douglas Fairbanks posing for a gag photo in 1924. Tempest (1928). Artist: Charles W. Pancoast. “Of course, we are all […]