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Actors' quotes about their colleagues
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This section contains actors and directors' quotes about their colleagues. Whether it is about constructive criticism or affirmation of respect and esteem, celebrities are always willing to talk about people they worked with or that have inspired them. In this section you will find every unfiltered statement and thought of what actors and directors' think about each other.
“Mike Nichols is the greatest director ever in films. Why? Because he never had a failure.”
“I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a hit he will get the credit. If it's a flop I'll be blamed.”
“A square shooter if ever there was one.”
“Like cutting Tolstoy's beard so he wouldn't write any revolutionary novels.”
“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
“He's a very, very bad actor, but he absolutely loves doing it.”
“I think Spencer always thought that acting was a rather silly way for a man to make a living.”
“When a legend grows up around a man there is often no means of pruning it, even within his family.”
“Joan Crawford was one of the people that made Hollywood the place that touched the imagination of the world.”
“I've never worked with an actor who was less conscious of his good image.”
“One thing we got to say about our good friend L. B. Mayer. Believe me — he's no schmuck.”
- Also found in Relationships in Hollywood
“My heart is broken. I’ve lost the best pal anyone ever had.”
“He was no soft touch… you had to prove yourself. Above all, you had to demonstrate conclusively to his satisfaction that you were no phony.”
“A great lady. It’s quite an achievement to spend that long in Hollywood and not become a Hollywood product.”
“She didn’t want to be famous. She wanted to be happy.”
“Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.”
“The most trying work time with an actress I can ever recall.”
“Elvis Presley – bloated, over the hill, adolescent entertainer, suddenly drawing people into Las Vegas – had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.”
- Also found in Gossip
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