Memorable Old Hollywood Quotes

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"I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it."
Art Williams
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
"It's all about the principle of it."
Bette Davis
"I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be."
Lauren Bacall
"I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing."
Oprah Winfrey
"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."
Jennifer Aniston
"A star is born, but the choice is always yours."
Rosalind Russell
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"I think you can be an artist at any age."
Sophia Loren
"I always take a fantastic view of things. You shouldn’t expect a portrait to look like a photo."
Bette Davis
"In Hollywood, a star is someone who makes a lot of money. A star is someone who is truly talented, and who also has a following."
Lana Turner
"You cannot be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed."
Judy Garland
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I don’t know what I’d be like if I weren’t me."
Cher
"Too many people are in a hurry to go nowhere."
James Cameron
"If you want to be a star, you have to be willing to be treated like one."
Mae West
"Acting is like a poker game; you have to play your cards right."
Ginger Rogers
"I’ll never forget the first time I saw Gary Cooper. He was so handsome, it was like a bolt of lightning hitting me."
Lucille Ball
"There’s no such thing as a free lunch."
Lillian Hellman
"I have always been interested in the making of movies and how they are made and sometimes it gets very complicated."
Katharine Hepburn
"When you’re in the public eye, you need to be prepared for everything."
Elizabeth Taylor
"What we have to do is we have to do what we feel is right, regardless of what anyone else thinks."
Katharine Hepburn
"Good things come in small packages."
Bette Davis
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"There will never be another Marilyn."
Billy Wilder
"I don’t think there is anything wrong with a woman wanting to be beautiful."
Ava Gardner
"I never left my heart in San Francisco, I left it in Hollywood."
Judy Garland
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
"There’s nothing more important than your own voice."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don’t like to give speeches. I like to have a good time."
Frank Sinatra
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman
"I think you might really love me."
Sammy Davis Jr.
"Happiness is the highest good."
Charlie Chaplin
"A movie is like a person, it has its childhood, its adolescence, and its maturity."
Federico Fellini
"What we have to do is look for the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"I love Hollywood. It's full of people who don't love me."
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding yourself in there."
Meryl Streep
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
Mark Twain
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"Hollywood is like a big candy store. Everyone can get a candy, but not everyone can get the same flavor."
Elizabeth Taylor
"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen."
Helen Frankenthaler
"There's a certain amount of anger and frustration that one has to put in one's work."
James Dean
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
Eden Ahbez
"A star is someone who can be seen from 100 miles away but can't be president."
Ellen DeGeneres
"You have to be a little bit crazy to do something that counts."
Bette Davis
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
Marilyn Monroe
"You know you're in trouble when the only one who can save you is somebody else who needs saving."
Robert Mitchum
"The movies are a carnival of humanity."
Alfred Hitchcock
"The content of a film is very important, but its context is even more so."
David Lynch
"As you get older, you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn
"I am not a has-been. I am a will-be."
Joseph Kearns
"It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men."
Mae West
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
Mae West
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing."
Mae West
"I’ve been in love with a lot of women but never with one like this."
Cary Grant
"I never said most of the things I said."
Yogi Berra
"There’s no business like show business."
Irving Berlin
"Acting is the most minor of touch arts. The most major is a good life."
Helen Hayes
"We’re all going to die sooner or later. It’s just that some of us will do it in front of a camera."
Bette Davis
"It's a new day. It's a new beginning. I want to be able to feel love again."
Patti LuPone
"I don’t want to be a superstar. I want to be known for what I do, not how I look."
Marilyn Monroe
"What I really want to do is be a good actress."
Katherine Hepburn
"Here's to the nights we won't remember with the friends we'll never forget."
Unknown
"I think that the best thing I can do is to be myself and stay true to that."
Audrey Hepburn
"A star is born; that is, a star is made by the team that chooses to promote it."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I’m not a size zero, but I’m not ashamed."
Lucille Ball
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps
"You have to be a voice for those who aren’t being heard."
Rita Moreno
"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you didn't commit."
Fran Lebowitz
"No matter what accolades I receive, I really believe I am never better than my last performance."
Hugh Jackman
"You can’t be afraid of what people will say, because you’re never going to make them all happy."
Madeleine L'Engle
"Life is much too important to be taken seriously."
Oscar Wilde
"The important thing is not to be afraid to take a chance."
James Cagney
"I can’t afford to be boring."
Diana Vreeland
"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
Marilyn Monroe
"You're not just a movie star. You're an institution."
Bette Davis
"It’s a shame to waste those beautiful looks on a life of crime."
Jimmy Cagney
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
"I never liked legs anyway."
Ginger Rogers
"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who want to be rich and those who work for them."
Marlon Brando
"I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing."
Mae West
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer
"You can’t be afraid of what people will say because you’re never going to make everybody happy."
Katherine Hepburn
"I'm just a girl who loves her dog."
Rita Hayworth
"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t be afraid of the dark."
Dean Martin
"In this business, until you’re known as a monster, you’re not a star."
Bette Davis
"Success is like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired."
Robert S. McNamara
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
George Burns
"You can’t see the stars without the dark."
Katherine Hepburn
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner world of the writer."
Bette Davis
"I think the greatest thing is to make people laugh."
Lucille Ball
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."
Charles M. Schulz
"It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world."
Dolly Parton
"If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."
Joan Crawford
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Charlie Chaplin
"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."
Ruth E. Renkey
"I’m not a has-been. I’m a will-be."
Helen Reddy
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
Rosalind Russell
"I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"A star is born, but the only thing that counts is what you do after you become one."
Marilyn Monroe
"I never thought of myself as an actress, but I suppose I always was."
Katharine Hepburn
"You can’t be afraid to hit the ball, you have to swing."
Joan Crawford
"If I could drop dead right now, I would."
Richard Arlen
"If you want to be a star, you have to act like one."
Bette Davis
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit."
Mae West
"The only way to survive is to be a great actress."
Judy Garland
"I don’t make movies for children. I make movies that everyone can enjoy."
Stanley Kubrick
"I try to make my life a little better every day."
Audrey Hepburn
"Success is the best revenge."
Kathy Hilton
"A movie is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the crowd."
Orson Welles
"I’m not a movie star. I’m a monument."
Bette Davis
"Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
Marilyn Monroe
"Be brave, take risks; nothing can substitute experience."
Paulo Coelho
"I think everyone should be happy. Everyone should love and be loved."
Lucille Ball
"Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
Meryl Streep
"In Hollywood, if you don’t have a brother, you’re an orphan."
Bette Davis
"There’s nothing like the thrill of being in love—for the first time or anytime."
Debbie Reynolds
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"The hardest thing about being a star is that you have to be something you’re not."
Joan Crawford
"I am learning to trust the process. I like to start as an idea, and watch it evolve."
Kelly McGillis
"Being a star is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher
"The most exciting thing is that you’ll find a new project each and every day."
Lucille Ball
"You can't be afraid to make decisions; you've got to go out on a limb."
Cary Grant
"I never let the fear of striking out get in my way."
Babe Ruth
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