An oil man is allowed to deplete twenty-seven percent annually as the oil is used up. An industrialist can depreciate his equipment as it ages. Now all I have to sell is me—this body of mine. If it’s maimed or broken, I can’t work. And it ages just as certainly as machine tools. But do they let me depreciate it? Heck, no. – Gary Cooper
I don’t know how much the Western film means to Europe; but to this country it means the very essence of national life. – William S. Hart
I’m going to stand up for America until somebody shoots me. – Roy Rogers
When you’re young and you fall off a horse you may break something. When you’re my age and you fall off, you splatter. – Roy Rogers
I told Dale, “When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger.” - Roy Rogers
The Gabors – The Hungarian born mother (Jolie)and two daughters (Eva and Zsa Zsa (my favorite from Green Acres – a situation comedy dying to be re-created). Eva wrote and autobiography – Orchids and Salami (you can’t make this stuff up)
Jolie It’s as easy to fall in love with a rich man as with a poor man.(and certainly more profitable)
There are no wrinkles on the heart.
Zsa Zsa
Sure, dollink. Come back and see me after my next marriage.
Conrad Hilton and I had one thing in common. We both wanted his money.
I never hated a man enough to give him back his diamonds. Money? It’s expendable.
Husbands are like fires. They go out when left unattended.
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
The phrase “platinum blonde best describes Jean Harlow.
If audiences like you, you don’t have to be an actress.
The men like me because I don’t wear a brassiere. And the women like me because I don’t look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
I like to wake up feeling a new man.
To a producer: What kind of whore am I now?
Louis B. Mayer about Harlow’s disastrous marriage to Paul Bern – “Tell me, how does a girl like Harlow, a temple of sex, wind up married to a fairy bigamist? Tell me!”
Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974) was the leading independent film producer for 35 years.
“Goldwynisms”
I was very pleasantly disappointed.
I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it.
1810? When was that?
You’re from Iowa? Out here we pronounce it Ohio.
First you have a story, then a good treatment, and next a first-rate director. After that, you hire a competent cast and even then you have only the mucus of a good picture.
Plenty of water’s passed between us.
It rolls off my back like a duck.
Color television! Bah, I won’t believe it until I see it in black and white.
Isn’t there a statue of limitation?
It’s no use. You’ve got to take the bull between the teeth.
The following companies and groups have been lobbying – again. They do this for the benefit of every citizen of the United States. They feel it’s their “duty” to keep our Congressmen and Senators informed and inline.
After all having to vote on bills that are 1300 pages long they haven’t read can be stressful if they haven’t enough pork hidden in the fine print or their not getting their share of corporate manna.
In just the second quarter the following fine companies “contributed” to the greening of their corporations. (lobbying dollars usually return $10 for every $1 invested, not bad for just doing what’s right)
Nuclear Energy Institute - $570,000 Coca Cola - $580,000 Pacific Gas and Electric - $740,000 Duke Energy Corp - $1,500,000 Air Bus Americas Inc. - $190,000 Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association - $640,000 Microsoft - $1,900,000 Eli Lilly - $3,6000,000 Progress Energy - $440,000 MillersCoors LLC – $490,000 PepsiCo Inc - $650,000 The Beer Institute (You’ve got to love the name) - $200,000
Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Why don’t we, as citizens, get together and stop paying all our taxes and start lobbying. That way our Congressman and Senators will listen to what we need and represent voters instead of these big companies. Wouldn’t that be nice—for a change.
I have listened to the debate on health reform quietly but now I can see the writing on the wall. The entire civilized world (excluding the United States) has health insurance for everyone.
My wife and I had our first health insurance plan in 1973(Golden Rule). We never missed a payment. (We have never missed a health insurance payment in 36 years.)
In 1992 I had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Fighting for my health care from our carrier was almost a full time job for my wife. I had surgery and six months of chemotherapy. I actually preferred cancer to fighting the health insurance battle.
The next year our health care (with the same carrier) doubled. We went to the insurance commissioner in Florida and we were informed that the commissioner’s job was not to represent citizens but to prevent fraud.
Our health carrier kept raising our fees until we were forced to change companies.
The first year in our new company (Blue Cross) the price was less, but then they raised our fees prodigiously until we were forced to the next company.
This bait-and-switch process went on until finally my wife went with one insurance carrier and I went with a lovely little company by the name of Megahealth. Basically I paid almost $600 per month and what I got was negotiated prices.
Megahealth has a manipulative policy of raising fees, Increasing your deductable and finally forcing you to pay a $5000 deductible for each medical incident.
I have not had to have any further cancer treatment since 1992, yet I have the stigma and it effects me 18 years later. Shouldn’t there be some point where they admit you’re cured? My doctor says at this point I have no higher chance of recurrence than a “normal” person.
I finally realized I was paying so much that I couldn’t afford to go to a doctor. I couldn’t afford my medications.
At 58 years of age I told them to kiss off and now I have no health insurance.
At this point I’m a cancer survivor and I have type-two diabetes. No insurance company my wife has contacted will cover me. They simply state that I’m not eligible.
It makes me angry because if I had avoided ever paying a health insurance company for 36 years and banked or invested the money I could fund my own health insurance plan. If I had understood the way insurance carriers worked I would not have played their game. There is a reason they hire actuaries and have big buildings.
It’s my understanding that 10% of the employed people in the United States work for some type of insurance company. If this is true, what do they produce? What’s their product?
If you have any assets and you have no health insurance then you pay much higher fees. In other words you subsidize the insured patients. An MRI for my insured father was $1400 and an MRI for me was $5600. Where is the fairness in that? Should an MRI cost 4x as much for the uninsured as the insured?
My wife and I have determined that our best tactic in dealing with the situation if nothing is done is to get a divorce (We’ve been happily married 39 years this September) and put everything in my wife’s name. Then I will qualify for care without losing everything we have worked for.
While we appreciate all that President Obama is attempting we believe the United States is run by lobbyists and Congressmen and Senators whose votes have been purchased by campaign contributions and political favors.
One way out of this mess is that our Senators and Congressmen should voluntarily give up their health benefits and be forced to go into the marketplace to purchase health insurance. Otherwise they will never understand that 58 year-old cancer survivors are not lazy and feckless. It seems incongruent to me that a Senator or Congressman can serve one term and have health insurance benefits for life.
People who never have a serious medical problem are not marked with the scarlet C. For the most part they pay their health insurance and go merrily along. This pleases the health insurance companies as their monthly payments translate into high profitability.
My other suggestion is that everyone who doesn’t have health insurance should march on Washington and camp out on the mall in a peaceful manner until our Senators and Congressmen see the extent of the problem.
I believe you should call for such a march to shut down Washington D.C. until our Senators and Congressmen understand that they serve at the will of the voters and not the will of the lobbyist $$$$s.
‘Woo Burgers in Paradise’ is a character-driven dark-comedy mystery about finding love and serial killers in a small but complicated seaside community.
She’s a cop who will shoot you and he’s a veterinarian with a soft heart. She’s tough on crime and he can’t seem to follow the rules. She’s an insider and he’s an outsider. Her friends are normal and the few friends he has are just beyond the fringe or shed twice a year. She’s got a big family and he’s lonely.
Doc and Sergeant Viki are drawn together by a tumor nestled in the brain of her narcotic-sniffing German shepherd.
‘Buskers on the Half Shell’, the second in the Gator-Crossing mystery series, continues Doc’s pursuit of Sergeant Viki. Oscar has been gator-napped and Sergeant Viki doesn’t want to pursue the case, but she’s forced to when it’s her only chance to regain her position as a detective in the Isle-of-Palms Police Department.
A cheerful romp interrupted now and then by sulfurous whiffs of stuff the tide washed in. It’s like a stroll in Mallory Square at sunset in March—exotic, entertaining, and bizarre. The author has molded the Florida Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. – Hal O’Boyle
Woo Burgers in Paradise by Theophilous Thorne-Bush
A cheerful romp interrupted now and then by sulfurous whiffs of stuff the tide washed in. It’s like a stroll in Mallory Square at sunset in March—exotic, entertaining, and bizarre. The author has molded the Florida Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. – Hal O’Boyle
See it soon coming to a multiplex near you!
Blatant Book Plug
Bubbocracy: Government of the Bubbas, by the Bubbas and for the Bubbas
Each of these quotes are from authors who have written or adapted original screenplays or properties.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn’t her youth he is seeking but his own. – Lenore Coffee
Whatever will bring in the most money will happen. – Elinor Glyn
A screenwriter is a man who is being tortured to confess and has nothing to confess. – Christopher Isherwood
A movie star is a creation that, like a painting or a statue or a symphony, does not age. – Garson Kanin
The films take our best ideas. We work like slaves, inventing, devising, changing, to please the morons who run this game. We spend endless hours in search of novel ideas, and, in the end, what do we get for it? A lousy fortune. – Alexander King
Gentlemen prefer blondes, but marry brunettes. – Anita Loos
The Hollywood version of the Twenty-third Psalm is “My pool runneth over.” – Harry Kurnitz
Fear makes you run one way--courage makes you run the other.
You need about twenty million dollars to live properly. My life span would probably be lengthened if I had that much. It's only trying to make twenty million dollars that cuts short a man's years. Spending it would be healthy.
Whenever I am in doubt, I take refuge in the vision of a simple and pure love.
A film is a tapeworm, a tapeworm 2,500 meters long that sucks the life and spirit out of me.
I think it's terrbly important that art exposes humiliation, that art shows how human beings humiliate each other, because humiliation is one of the most dreadful companions of humanity, and our whole social system is based to an enormous extent on humiliation.
To make a man happy is a full-time job – with no holidays
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs
A man would prefer to come hoe to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
On Friends – It’s the ones you can call up at 4:00 who matter
Frankly I enjoy my comedies even more than the audience.
I had stumbled on the secret of being funny: an idea going in one direction meets an opposite idea suddenly.
Figuring out what the audience expects, and then doing something different, is great fun for me.
I have no design for living, no philosophy – whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.
I was loved by crowds, but I didn’t have a single close friend – I felt like the lonliest man alive.
You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the streets trying to find enough to eat to keep alive, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it you go down in defeat.
If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful, it’s worse than having a skin disease.
Quitting acting – that is the mark of maturity.
I suppose it’s like the old Indian proverb about the leaf and the tree—“not a leaf move that the tree does not know.” Maybe a film does have influence on people’s lives.
I’m convinced that the larger the gross the worse the picture.
After you’ve got enough money, money doesn’t matter.
“There’s a broad with a future behind her.” – Constance Bennett
“Necking with Marilyn is like kissing Hitler.” – Tony Curtis
“If it wasn’t for some of her friends, she wouldn’t be where she is.” – Joe DiMaggio
“You are a very lovely young lady.” – Nikita Khruschchev
“Mr. President, this lovely lady, this one lovely lady who has done so much, who has meant so much, here she is, Mr. President, the late Marilyn Monroe.” – Peter Lawford, introducing the star at President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party
“Now I can retire from politics after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me by such a sweet, wholesome girl as Marilyn Monroe.” – John F. Kennedy
“Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples. – Otto Preminger
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