Douglas Fairbanks Jr Quotes

#1. My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

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#4. Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.

Booboo Stewart

#5. Love is blind, you just see bright light

Talib Kweli

#6. I am still working on patter and presentation.

Paul Daniels

#7. I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

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#8. I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

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#9. I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

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#10. I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

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#11. That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#12. And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here. Windham

Sherry Thomas

#13. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

#14. Look for God like a man on fire looks for water.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

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#16. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

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#17. I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

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#18. He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Publilius Syrus

#19. I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

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#20. Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

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#21. What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

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#22. A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.

Caroline Myss

#23. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.