“I hope I am not making it in this business on my sexy looks. I really don’t think it’s that important. But evidently the masses are looking for sex in every picture. And if they want it, I think they should have it. Cinema is meant to entertain, and producers should strive to make the […]
“Just last month, I was asked to do another of those barbarian things — and my answer was ‘never again.’ I mean it. If I can’t play good American girls, I’d much rather not work.” — Rita Gam in 1961. Here she is playing Attila the Hun’s daughter in Sign of the Pagan (1954). […]
“You can have success if you can handle it.” — Donna Douglas Source: Bob Thomas in 1965. Donna Douglas Vegetable Dip Recipe Ingredients: 1 10-oz package of frozen chopped spinach 1 package Knorr’s vegetable soup 1 8-oz container of sour cream 1 cup mayonnaise 1 medium onion, chopped 1 can water chestnuts, chopped Directions: […]
“I started out trying to win the admiration of boys by outboying them, but I soon learned that they didn’t like to have a girl beat them at their games. But I found that if you could appreciate their jokes, laugh with them, they never tire of you. They quickly tire of mere beauty, but […]
“I honestly don’t look back to the past. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and tend to get annoyed at myself if I think about them. I don’t even like to look at myself in my old films. I hate my face. It’s so round. I remember my mother telling me not to worry about […]
“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.” […]
“People are taught that it is inelegant and indelicate to express their approval at the theater, and if it is getting so that actors and actresses hardly have any applause on their entrances and exits. Please be more demonstrative. It’s the only way we have of knowing whether or not you like us. Actors and […]
“I never get fatigued making pictures. I love to work them out. That’s why I’m a film player.” — Marguerite Clayton Source: Dr. A. L. Roat (1915) “My folks are in Utah, and my father is a retired mining engineer, and none of them was ever connected with the stage in any form.” — […]
“When we talk of commercialism, most of us think of the sort of photoplays that people are enthusiastic about, and it means to most of us that we are going to forget all about art.” — Edwin August in 1915 “There are no friends like the old friends after all. I honestly believe that […]
“Well, you already know that I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and that I was educated there, and in Chicago and Philadelphia. And that my first picture work was with Essanay. I have never played anything but star parts, though – my first one was in ‘The Loan-Shark,’ and I was with them for three […]