“The main trouble with the picture industry today is this business of imitating. It’s done for money. Art is a slight consideration with most producers. Yet a picture that lacks art doesn’t make money. The fellows who are getting the most out of the business are the ones who are doing something new.” — Harry […]
“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, […]
“I’ve been thinking, since I started this, of a way to say in just a few words, how I feel about Davy Crockett—to sum the whole thing up. And this is the best I can do: God touches the lives of some people, like Davy Crockett, choosing them for great achievements in order to show […]
“I can’t remember when I didn’t want to be an actress. I knew it was useless for me to attempt to go to Hollywood, an unknown, and get anywhere. So I went to dancing school, got a job in the chorus of a show touring a motion picture circuit. While I was doing that I also […]
“I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to be myself.” — Jean Arthur “Modern life is so complex that I think we need all the intellectual tools at our command to understand it. I am particularly interested in the mental and spiritual phases of life. In this modern world, the two […]