Silver Screen Star Quotes
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"In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face if you can imagine that"---Joan Blondell 1930. ❤️
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“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”— Meryl Streep
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December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”— Meryl Streep
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November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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“I’ve reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.” —Veronica Lake…
January 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“I’ve reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.” —Veronica Lake…
“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”— Diane Keaton
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October 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”— Diane Keaton
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"If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular."-- Jean Arthur
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July 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular."-- Jean Arthur
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“I adored Natalie Wood. She was incredibly generous, which not many people in our industry are. She was extremely driven and in charge of her career, yet Natalie had a vulnerability about her.”— Robert Redford
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July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“I adored Natalie Wood. She was incredibly generous, which not many people in our industry are. She was extremely driven and in charge of her career, yet Natalie had a vulnerability about her.”— Robert Redford
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"I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes."-- Jean Harlow
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July 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes."-- Jean Harlow
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"If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it."-- James Earl Jones
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July 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it."-- James Earl Jones
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"A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words."-- Lee Van Cleef
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June 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words."-- Lee Van Cleef
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“If you don't think about men and sex while you're dancing, your body won't say anything."- Vera-Ellen
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June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“If you don't think about men and sex while you're dancing, your body won't say anything."- Vera-Ellen
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“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA.
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🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA.
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🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA.
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"The big secret in playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong."
—Steve Cochran
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—Steve Cochran
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May 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"The big secret in playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong."
—Steve Cochran
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—Steve Cochran
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“ I worked hard. It was full of disappointment and joy, discouragement and rewards. I'll be forever grateful for all those wonderful years.”— Robert Montgomery
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May 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“ I worked hard. It was full of disappointment and joy, discouragement and rewards. I'll be forever grateful for all those wonderful years.”— Robert Montgomery
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My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'
Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905.
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Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'
Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905.
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Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905.
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."— Katharine Hepburn
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May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."— Katharine Hepburn
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“Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism”
🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana.
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🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism”
🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana.
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🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana.
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”
🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI.
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🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”
🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI.
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🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”
--Will Rogers
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--Will Rogers
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April 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”
--Will Rogers
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--Will Rogers
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"... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph."- Harold Russell
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April 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph."- Harold Russell
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Remembering Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, born on this day 🎂 in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors"
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“Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors"
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January 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Remembering Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, born on this day 🎂 in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors"
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“Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors"
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“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren’t anybody.”Remembering Eldred Gregory Peck, born on this day 🎂in 1916 in La Jolla, CA.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren’t anybody.”Remembering Eldred Gregory Peck, born on this day 🎂in 1916 in La Jolla, CA.
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"Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good."
Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883.
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Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good."
Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883.
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Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883.
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"Your word is your bond"
Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901.
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Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Your word is your bond"
Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901.
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Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901.
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"Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference."
--Bette Davis
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--Bette Davis
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January 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference."
--Bette Davis
#TCM #BetteDavis
--Bette Davis
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