You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
~ Lillian Gish

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
~ Agnes Repplier

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
~ Denis Leary

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
~ Goldie Hawn

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
~ River Phoenix

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
~ Samuel Goldwyn

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
~ Aaron Allston

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
~ Mary Pickford

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
~ T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963