“- Diana Barrie: You should have never given it up, Sidney.
- Sidney Cochran: What?
- Diana Barrie: Acting! Christ, you were good. You had more promise than anyone.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.”
Heath Ledger

“I was not, shall we say, a go-getter. I guess I was sort of a bum.”

Henry Fonda

“The most important development for a girl ambitious for a screen career, is development of the mind. She should be interested in music. She should read fine books, learn to dance, and possibly study for one of the sciences.”
Jean Harlow

“I've already received an Academy Award and I made a lot of money for the studios and enough for me too. I want to try television because I can control the product.”

Loretta Young