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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to
become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
- Fred Allen
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on
television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span
of Daffy Duck.
-Tom Shales, on Robin Williams
Well, at least he has found his true love - what a pity he can't marry himself.
- Frank Sinatra, on Robert Redford
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a condom full of walnuts.
- Clive James
She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short, and she has a slight
pot-belly.
- Richard Burton, on Elizabeth Taylor
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
- Critic John Simon, on Diana Rigg nude on stage
She wasn't very good. She was fine when she was six or seven. But did you notice
how she couldn't act when she was fourteen?
- Tatum O'Neal, on Shirley Temple
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra.
- W. C. Fields on Mae West
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
- Fred Allen
Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I'm
just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary
Cooper.
- Gary Cooper, after he turned down the role of Rhett Butler
He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.
- Johnny Carson on Chevy Chase
His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.
- Howard Hughes on Clark Gable
Now there sits a man with an open mind. You can feel the draft from here.
- Groucho Marx on his brother, Chico
There were three things that Chico was always on - a phone, a horse, or a broad.
- Groucho Marx on his brother, Chico
He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog.
- John Simon on Walter Matthau
His features resembled a fossilized wash rag.
- Alan Brien on Steve McQueen
You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.
- Alfred Hitchcock
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.
- Mae West on fellow film star Jean Harlow
An Actor is someone whom, if you aren't talking about him, he isn't listening.
- Marlon Brando
Bette Davis and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face -
both of them.
- Tallulah Bankhead
She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.
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