Posted on 12/26/2014 6:33:04 PM PST by SMCC1
Edited on 12/26/2014 7:56:04 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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1. John Wayne on Clark Gable: “Gable’s an idiot. You know why he’s an actor? It’s the only thing he’s smart enough to do.”
2. Tallulah Bankhead on Bette Davis: “Don’t think I don’t know who’s been spreading gossip about me. After all the nice things I’ve said about that hag. When I get hold of her, I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!”
3. Joan Crawford on Bette Davis: “She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult except a gang of rebels without a cause. I have fans. There’s a big difference.”
4. Bette Davis on Joan Crawford: “I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.” 5. Sterling Hayden on Joan Crawford: “There’s is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.”
6. Vivian Leigh on Bette Davis after turning down a role in HUSH…HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE: “I could just stand the thought of facing Joan Crawford at seven in the morning, but I couldn’t stand the thought of facing Bette Davis at that or any hour.”
7. Carol Lombard on Vivien Leigh: “That [snip] English bitch.”
8. Cary Grant on Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and James Dean: “I have no rapport with the new idols of the screen, and that includes Marlon Brando and his style of Method acting. It certainly includes Montgomery Clift and that God-awful James Dean. Some producer should cast all three of them in the same movie and let them duke it out. When they’ve finished each other off, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and I will return and start making real movies again like we used to.”
9. Bette Davis on Cary Grant: “He needed willowy or boyish girls like Katharine Hepburn to make him look what they now call macho. If I’d co-starred with Grant or if Crawford had, we’d have eaten him for breakfast.”
10. Christopher Plummer on Julie Andrews: “Working with her is like being hit over the head with a big Valentine’s Day card, every day.”
11. Mickey Rooney on Ernest Borgnine: “All the Oscars in the world can’t buy him dignity, class and talent. I don’t know why he is famous and why he is a star. Talk about a lucky jerk.”
12. Ernest Borgnine on Mickey Rooney: “I`ve got the Oscar, he`s got a therapist. Checkmate!”
13. Anthony Hopkins on Shirley MacLaine: “She was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with.”
14. Marlon Brando on James Dean: “Mr. Dean appears to be wearing my last year’s wardrobe and using my last year’s talent.”
15. Marlon Brando on Montgomery Clift : “He acts like he’s got a Mixmaster up his ass and doesn’t want anyone to know it.”
16. Richard Burton on Marlon Brando: “Marlon has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
17. Trevor Howard on Marlon Brando: “Unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous. He could drive a saint to hell in a dogsled.”
18. Dirk Bogarde on Monica Vitti: “I’ve fallen deeply in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with except Monica Vitti. She was a beast.”
19. Walter Mattheu to Barbra Streisand during an on set argument while making HELLO DOLLY!: “I have more talent in my farts than you have in your whole body.”
20. Fanny Brice on Esther Williams: “Wet, she’s a star. Dry, she ain’t.”
21. John Cassavetes on Ricardo Montalban: “Ricardo Montalban is to improvised acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”
22. Oliver Reed on Jack Nicolson: “Nicholson? As far as I’m concerned, he’s a balding midget. He stands five-foot-seven, you know. He tries to play heavies and doesn’t quite make it.”
23. Sophia Loren on Gina Lollobrigida: “Gina’s personality is limited. She is good playing a peasant but is incapable of playing a lady.”
24. Jane Fonda on Laurence Harvey: “Acting opposite Harvey is like acting by yourself. Only worse!”
25. Richard Harris on Michael Caine: “An over-fat, flatulent, 62-year-old windbag. A master of inconsequence masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.”
26. Frank Sinatra on Shelley Winters: “A bowlegged b***h of a Brooklyn blonde.”
27. Shelley Winters on Frank Sinatra: “A skinny, no-talent, stupid, Hoboken bastard.”
28. John Gielgud on Ingrid Bergman: “Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.”
29. William Holden on Humphrey Bogart: “I hated the bastard.”
30. Humphrey Bogart on William Holden: “A dumb pr**k.”
"19. Walter Mattheu to Barbra Streisand during an on set argument while making HELLO DOLLY!: “I have more talent in my farts than you have in your whole body.”
This one always bummed me out bc I enjoy the movie bc of their work together; he went on to call her "treacly" and a bit of a perfectionist. It's mild compared to other quotes, but takes some varnish off their scenes together.
#17. I one of my favorites “He could drive a Saint to Hell in a Dogsled!”. I have known people like that, Oh yes.
“17. Trevor Howard on Marlon Brando: “Unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous. He could drive a saint to hell in a dogsled.”
Nothing like a British thespian. LOL
I met Richard Kiel (Jaws in Moonraker) a few years ago. I asked him how people in Hollywood got along. He named some names of other actors that he strongly disliked, so they are not all one big happy family.
“12. Ernest Borgnine on Mickey Rooney: “I`ve got the Oscar, he`s got a therapist. Checkmate!” “
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My favorite.
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Drinking finally killed him.
Interesting to hear Harris insult Michael Caine, as I doubt Harris was sober for long enough at any point of his life to form an impression. I met Caine in Austin years ago when they were filming Miss Congeniality and found him to be a gentleman. One of my favorite actors of all time too.
I always thought all these people got along! I guess they were just acting.
Never met Richard Kiel, but I heard he let his drinking get out of control while he was on the road shooting films. He turned to Christ and became sober.
Wonderful, keepable, reusable b@tchy quotes. I particularly like 21:
21. John Cassavetes on Ricardo Montalban: “Ricardo Montalban is to improvised acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”
Sad he’s gone now.
Richard Harris’s “MacArthur Park” made me love him forever.
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Even as a juvenile actor, he was phenomenal.
Hollyweird....
Directors, they’re the ones who should be talking.
I asked him about that too. He said it was true. When I met him at Travis AFB, CA, I think he was suffering after a car accident too. He only had good things to say about Roger Moore as well.
I agree -—Mickey was quite talented but Borgnine’s zinger really amused me.
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ROFL
Oh My...a cutthroat business...who knew?
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