Mark Perry > Mark's Quotes

“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
― Darryl F. Zanuck

“I'm not young. What's wrong with that?”
― Vivien Leigh

“I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”
― Truman Capote

“I wouldn't be caught dead marring a woman old enough to be my wife.”
― Tony Curtis

“Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Television is for appearing on, not looking at.”
― Noel Coward

“People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.”
― Tab Hunter

“Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.”
― Anthony Perkins

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
― Marlon Brando

“I am, at heart, a gentleman.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies--because you never know when you'll have to work with them.”
― Lana Turner

“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
― Judy Garland

“I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.”
― Jimmy Stewart

“Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.”
― Douglas Sirk

“I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.”
― Clark Gable

“We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.”
― Cary Grant

“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
― Bette Davis