RANDOM QUOTES – PT80
ANN SOTHERN (1909-2001) [On her life-long friend Lucille Ball]: ‘Lucy used to complain that she got all the parts I turned down. Now I produce the show [The Ann Sothern Show], and she […]
Misc
RANDOM QUOTES – PT72.
ANGIE DICKINSON (1931 – ) ‘When I started shooting Police Woman (1974), someone asked me if I had ever played a sleuth before. I said, ‘Yes, many times.’ I thought they were asking me if I had ever played a slut. I didn’t know what a sleuth was.’ ‘My […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT67.
HENRY FONDA (1905 – 82) [The father of actors Jane and Peter Fonda had this to say about them in 1976]: ‘I didn’t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I’m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn’t a […]
‘MOVIE QUIZ’ #3
QUIZ # 3 Q1 IN WHICH 1952 MARTIN & LEWIS COMEDY DID THE UNKNOWN JAMES DEAN APPEAR IN A SCENE? Q2 IN WHICH 1990 ROMANTIC COMEDY WOULD YOU FIND CHARACTERS NAMED VIVIAN WARD, STUCKEY & KIT DE LUCA? Q3 WHO DIRECTED VERTIGO […]
MOVIE QUIZ # 1
MOVIE QUIZ # 1 For something a little different I have compiled the first movie quiz of fifty questions. Whether or not there will be more of these depends entirely on how energetic I […]
‘RANDOM QUOTES’ – PT49.
SOPHIA LOREN: (1934 – ) [On why she, although being a nominee, could not attend the 1961 Academy Awards]: ‘I decided that I could not bear the ordeal of sitting in plain view of millions of viewers […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT46
RUSSELL CROWE: (1964 – ) ‘One of the most painful things of the L. A. Confidential (1997) character I played was that the author [James Ellroy], kept telling me that Bud White wasn’t a drinker. I said, ‘Come on, this is 1953. He’s a blue-collar bloke, a cop. You’re […]
QUOTES FROM DIRECTORS.
BRUCE BERESFORD: Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Double Jeopardy (1999). Jodie Foster [Director Bruce Beresford attached Jodie Foster to his thriller Double Jeopardy (1999), and met with her several times about the script. This is his assessment of the conversations that eventually saw Ashley […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT39.
KEANU REEVES: ‘I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.’ [On Patrick Swayze when the two co-starred in Point Break (1991)] ‘He was a beautiful person, an artist! There were some sky-diving sequences in this film we did […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT38.
JULIE WALTERS: [On Educating Rita (1983)] ‘I thought I was dreadful in it. When I first saw the film, I said, ‘Oh God, it’s awful. And I’m awful in it.’ I went straight to the toilets and started crying. When our lovely director, Lewis Gilbert, was talking […]