“I’ve been semi-retired since the first weekend Iron Man 1 opened. The great thing about life is good things happen – and I’ll speak for myself – and you get inflated. You think, ‘Oh my God, I’ve created everything that’s great in my life.’ And then things happen where you go, ‘OK, there’s evidence to […]
“There’s nobody in the world can tell me I’m not going to make a success of this acting. I know I will –because I’m learning the fundamentals. I’ve studied more out here than I ever did at Alabama. I’m getting a ground-work — studying everything. I’ve invested a lot of my earnings in study. Diction, […]
“There are moments when it’s too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That’s when you know there’s something lacking in your life. You just know.” — Frank Sinatra “Call it self-confidence. Call it cockiness – call it anything, but it has always been true of me that when I get […]
“But I’m sure Hollywood isn’t what it used to be. Once it was what people expected, a wild boom town, where a new gold had been discovered, and actors, naturally a crazy and vagabond ilk, ran loose. Today that’s gone. Hollywood is horribly respectable. The actors are too sober. They play cricket and polo; they […]
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” – Bruce Lee “I didn’t like it too well. It was just a puppet part.” — Bruce Lee Source: Bob Geurink (1969) Photo: The Green Hornet (1966). With Van Williams. “Bruce was a true martial artist, created himself, from a little […]
“Life is only what you get out of it in the living, isn’t it? I do want money but I won’t pay too much of myself to get it. I hate discipline. Time clocks are abhorrent to me.” – Errol Flynn Source: Harry Lang (1936) “You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you […]
“I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.” – Alan Ladd Bizarre Los Angeles: Alan Ladd “This Gun for Hire: Mug with Color Inside The Blue Dahlia (1946). Co-stars Veronica Lake and William Bendix. “I […]
“I’ve learned to like Hollywood and everyone in it….I miss the country, and I miss a lot of fine folks. But I’ll never go back to that. There’s too much routine, and I’ve learned to live on excitement.” — Gary Cooper Source: Edward Churchill (1931) Cooper at two years old. “I know that […]
“Lou Costello? That roly-poly fat boy? Why, he’s such an out-and-out liar he doesn’t even believe himself! I admit he’s a tough guy. In fact, he’s so tough even his meals are afraid to disagree with him.” — Bud Abbott “Bud Abbott? Listen….Abbott wouldn’t even give a beggar a bite if he owned Sandwich Islands! […]