Quotes for 1/3/2012

• I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas. (Myrna Loy)
• It was a role no one could live up to, really. No telling where my career would have gone if they hadn`t hung that title on me. Labels limit you, because they limit your possibilities. But that`s how they think in Hollywood (Myrna Loy)
• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our days we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there`s no mystery. No privacy. And no sex either. Most of the sex I`ve seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex (Myrna Loy)
• I rushed out of the projection room, ran home and cried for hours. I was really ashamed of myself. It was so awful... (Myrna Loy)
• Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a court house carrying a briefcase (Myrna Loy)
• (referring to her perfect wife typecasting) "Some perfect wife I am. I`ve been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can`t boil an egg." (Myrna Loy)
• He happened to be an actor, a damned good one, and nobody knew it - least of all Clark. Oh, he wanted to be an actor, but he always deprecated his ability, pretended it didn`t matter. He was a really shy man with a terrible inferiority in there somewhere. Something was missing that kept him from doing the things he could have done. (Myrna Loy)
• This was a young woman with an incredible attitude. She wanted to be Joan Crawford. I think that is the basis of the book she wrote afterward and everything else. I see what her mind created, the fantasy world she lived in... (Myrna Loy)
• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn`t give a damn about. I didn`t fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did. (Myrna Loy)
• I think Barbra Streisand is a genius, the creativity she has! And I am very impressed with her as a person. Some years ago I was on the Academy Awards broadcast, she came up to me. I was standing in the wings and Barbra walked across the stage to greet me. Very polite, very nice. You don`t find many young women who extend that kind of gracious courtesy to an older woman. Audrey Hepburn does. And Barbra. I`ve not forgotten how charming she was. (Myrna Loy)
• The later one were very bad indeed, but it was always a joy to work with Bill Powell. He was and is a dear friend, and in the early Thin Man films with Woody Van Dyke, we managed to achieve what for those days was an almost pioneering sense of spontaneity. (Myrna Loy)
• It`s the man`s tremendous wit that just keeps coming across. Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves. Spencer Tracy used to say to me after a scene, "Did I ham that one up?" If I said yes, he`d say, "Okay, let`s do it again." There`s that same honesty in Burt Reynolds. He`s a throwback to the old school. (Myrna Loy)
• I love Liza. She is so original. People speak of her in terms of her mother, but she is herself, very definitely. A good, strong, unique person. (Myrna Loy)
• Rex Harrison was in a strange kind of mood in "Midnight Lace" no doubt because his wife Kay Kendall had died. He had very little time for me or anybody else, as far as I could tell; he did his job and that was it. (Myrna Loy)
• I have nothing but the best to say about Doris Day. She was wonderful to me, really lovely. She sent flowers when I started and remained friendly and attentive. As I`ve said, it`s difficult when you start stepping down. You fight so hard to get to the top and then you realize it`s time to gracefully give in a little. Doris, who was riding high then, never played the prima dona. I appreciated her attitude enormously. (Myrna Loy)
• Monty was a great talent, whose acting I always admired. He had extraordinary instincts. His observations about the script were always astute and correct. He would have made a great director, which eventually he wanted to be. "Would you ever direct yourself?," I once asked him. "Are you kidding," he replied. "As a director, I simply wouldn`t put up with all that crap from me." Monty was having problems then. He was full of all kinds of problems, many of them imaginary. (Myrna Loy)
• A lovely gentleman with a great quality of imagination. (Myrna Loy)
• Business investment is on the rise, manufacturing activity is gaining momentum, and sustained job growth is just around the corner (Brian S. Wesbury)
• It's still going to be a very tight call (Brian S. Wesbury)
• I'm not saying this doesn't mean anything. I just think it means less than the printed numbers have shown (Brian S. Wesbury)
• Because paper has more patience than people. (Anna Frank)
• I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've neve met. I want to go on living even after my death! (Anna Frank)
• Whoever is happy will make others happy. (Anna Frank)
• Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point. (Anna Frank)
• I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. (Anna Frank)
• I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart. (Anna Frank)
• There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down. (Anna Frank)
• As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad? (Anna Frank)
• Its kinda boring but not really (Anna Frank)
• A voice within me is sobbing, (Anna Frank)
• And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to b (Anna Frank)
• And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. (Anna Frank)
• I wish to go on living even after my death. (Anna Frank)
• This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood. (Anna Frank)
• I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character! (Anna Frank)
• If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. (Anna Frank)
• Go outside...amidst the simple beauty of nature...and know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. (Anna Frank)
• Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! (Anna Frank)
• A quiet conscience makes one strong! (Anna Frank)
• I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. (Anna Frank)
• I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. (Anna Frank)
• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. (Anna Frank)
• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. (Anna Frank)
• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer (Frank Zappa)
• Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny (Frank Zappa)
• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. (Frank Zappa)
• Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Frank Zappa)
• Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon (Frank Zappa)
• Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. (Frank Zappa)
• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia (Frank Zappa)

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