“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. Old Hollywood Collection: Buster Keaton “The High Sign” (1921) Coffee / Tea […]
“The worst thing you can do with money is save it.” — Jackie Gleason “If you get your audience on that first joke, you’re in. If you don’t, it makes it twice as tough to get ’em with the second one. Then you’re dead, and so is your show.” — Jackie Gleason Source: 1952 […]
“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, […]
“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 […]