You Have to Expect a Few Blisters

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All they ever did for me at MGM was to change my leading men and the water in the pool. – Esther Williams

You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady. – Natalie Wood

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters. – Loretta Young

In the language of screen comedians, four of the main grades of laugh are the titter, the yowl, the belly laugh, and the boffo. – James Agee

Comedy offers a more pessimistic worldview than tragedy. Comedy deals, after all, with our limitation, not our freedom. It describes our trivial rather than our heroic concerns. – Herman G. Weinberg

Not only is God dead, but try to get a plumber on weekends. – Woody Allen

I failed to make the chess team, because of my height. – Woody Allen.

I know one star in Hollywood who hasn’t been spoiled by success and that is Mickey Mouse. – Eddie Cantor

I don’t relate to Mickey as a rodent but as a comic character of the grand proportion. Along with the swastika and the Coca-Cola bottle, Mickey Mouse is the most powerful graphic image of the 20th Century. – Ernest Trova

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