"Hello," he lied.
Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent
A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played with conviction is interpretation.
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen (1894-1956)
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life.
Chuck Jones
Don't pay any attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them.
Sam Goldwyn
Everybody has different taste and finds different things offensive. That's what the radio dial is for.
Howard Stern
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg, advising Louis B. Mayer not to bid for film rights to "Gone with the Wind"
Having your book made into a movie is like having your ox made into a bouillon cube.
Bill Neely
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
I heard him do what he calls singing. It's something like the noise a dying buffalo makes.
voice teacher Robert Lansing, on Bruce Springsteen
I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a GREEDY craven little coward.
Daffy Duck
I think everyone should sing all the time. If the good Lord gave you a beautiful singing voice, it's a fine way to say "Thank you"; and if he didn't, it's a good way to get even.
Van Holyoake
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby.
Mary Tyler Moore (1936-) as Mary, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper, on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind"
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first drafts of human beings.
Frank DeFord
It will be gone by June.
Variety, 1955, speaking of Rock & Roll music
It's always easier to see a show you don't like the second time because you know it ends.
Walter Slezak (1902-1983)
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Samuel Goldwyn
Of all the awards I've received, this is by far the most recent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Public service broadcasting delivers programs to audiences. Commercial broadcasting delivers audiences to advertisers.
Kitman's Law of TV Programming
Pure drivel tends to drive out ordinary drivel.
Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for the benefit of people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft
Jerry Reed song title
Swans sing before they die;
'twere no bad thing
should
certain persons die
before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."
Johnny Carson
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson
The singer will have to go.
Manager Eric Easton, speaking of his new talents, The Rolling Stones
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she mets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Marin County newspaper's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.
Decca Recording Company, turning down the Beatles, 1962
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them.
Bob Dylan
When Henry Kissinger can get the Nobel Peace Prize, what is there left for satire?
Songwriter Tom Lehrer, explaining his retirement
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Frank Zappa