“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
Sophia Loren

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
Robert Morley

“Most executives at the big studios have no guts — they're so busy holding on to their jobs they never stick their necks out. Know how [Ernst] Lubitsch found out the other day that he was no longer head of Paramount?”
Clark Gable

“Well, I remember when I used to go into managers' offices to apply for jobs. I always was afraid I'd be either too short or too tall for the role I was applying for. So I used to scrooch down as little as I could, so that if they said I was too small I could suddenly grow up right there before their eyes.”

Mary Pickford