“The story of being discovered as a Cinderella is nonsense. I do not know where to say it began. But I believe I wanted escape. I wanted to escape my own environment.” — Capucine Source: Bernard Gavzer (1964) “I’m a name dropper.” — Capucine, explaining why she goes by one name. Source: James […]
“I love to love, and I hate to leave. But I love freely and I leave freely.” — Brigitte Bardot Source: Herb Michelson (1966) Photo: Peter Basch “I am really a cat transformed into a woman . . . I purr. I scratch. And sometimes I bite.” — Brigitte Bardot
“A neurotic person has a necessity to express himself – and my neuroticism manifested itself in the dramatic. Why do most actors act? To express the fantasies in which they have involved themselves!” — James Dean Source: Philip K. Scheuer (1954) “I think I am gong to make it because on one hand I […]
“I can’t knock my pictures. They have tremendous box-office appeal.” — Vincent Price Source: Kevin Thomas (1970) Photo: The Masque of the Red Death (1964) “I played so many gentle men at the beginning of my career that I certainly wanted to play some villains and so I got kind of stuck in villains.” […]
“The secret of ‘charm’ is ‘bullshit.’” — Tyrone Power, Jr. “Tyrone Power was my ideal man.” — Sophia Loren The Razor’s Edge (1946). Artwork by Norman Rockwell. Co-stars Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb and Herbert Marshall. Tyrone Powers‘ grave, located at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Section 8, Lot […]
“Ever since I came to America, I have wanted to go on the stage. Even when I was a stenographer in New York I was not satisfied.” — Fifi D’Orsay “I was in vaudeville. I played here on the coast in 1928. It was good for me, the time I spent in vaudeville. It’s the […]
“Everything good comes to Hollywood, but nothing originates here. It’s a melting pot for talent developed in other parts of the world.” – Kay Francis Source: Dorothy Woolridge (1934) “I seldom wear low heels and never slouch when I’m standing. If I am tall I’m going to be tall. Personally, I consider myself lucky not […]
“I have often thought that if the author of a bad book, play or story didn’t know what to do with it, he should have got in touch with some studio to which I was under contract. He could have sold it at once as a vehicle for Elissa Landi.” — Elissa Landi Source: Edith […]
“The leading man’s life is not a bed of roses…Pictures, particularly, have been too greatly dominated by women for their own good. In other words, the feminine influence has entered first through the use of domestic novels, largely written by women; and then the dominance of women stars on the screen. It was inevitable that […]
“I love the sun, the moon, and trees, and heavy scented flowers. And beautiful friends about me. I hate intolerance and blundering stupidity. And those who are ridden in fear. I have had much laughter and much success. And many tears and dark sorrow. Now, gently, a philosophy has tempered all these things for me.” […]