I Knew Doris Day Before she was a Virgin

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Raymond Chandler about Alan Ladd:
Alan Ladd is hard, bitter and occasionally charming, but he is, after all, a small boy’s idea of a tough guy.

I’ve been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. – Groucho Marx

Billy Graham about Jayne Mansfield:
This country knows more about Jayne’s statistics than the Second Commandment.

You survive bad pictures. Look at Rin-Tin-Tin. – Robert Mitchum

Hal Kanter about Omar Sharif
Was that Omar Sharif riding the camel down Ventura last night? It was the one with the bumper sticker that says “Golda Meir is a shiksa.”

Louella Parsons about James Stewart:
James Stewart is the most nearly normal of all Hollywood stars.

Buster Crabbe about Johnny Weissmuller:
Johnny Weissmuller would simply open his mouth, and the studio had a recording of three men, one a soprano, the other a baritone, and the third a hog caller, who yelled together. And that was the great Tarzan trademark.

George Masters about Raquel Welch:
Raquel Welch is silicone from the knees up.

Why it looks like my Uncle Oscar! – Margaret Herrick, secretary to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on seeing the distinctive Award for the first time.

Being a censor is like being a whore; everyone wants to know how you got into the business. – Jack Vizzard, movie watchdog

Irving Thalberg, producer, to a friend about a mutual “blacklisted” friend: There is no such thing as a blacklist – but I’ll see he gets off it.

Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter, who was one of the “Hollywood Ten.”
The right to express ideas, good ideas, bad ideas, wicked ideas, crazy ideas, impossible ideas – this is the most precious right the individual can have.