Irving Thalberg Quotes

#1. services as a tree trimmer.92 In the fall of 1975, while still promoting Cuckoo's Nest, Nicholson played a very small part in his pal Sam Spiegel's production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, based on the life of MGM wonder boy Irving Thalberg, who made Metro the dominant

Edward Douglas

#2. I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

Kevin Spacey

#3. Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

Joan Crawford

#4. I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

Elizabeth Banks

#5. If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

Irving Thalberg

#6. We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#7. A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Irving Thalberg

#8. Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

Walt Whitman

#9. The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer ... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Irving Thalberg

#10. One does not become a guru by accident.

James Fenton

#11. The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

Irving Thalberg

#12. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Irving Thalberg

#13. Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

Irving Thalberg

#14. Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Irving Thalberg

#15. There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

David Frum

#16. Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Irving Thalberg

#17. They walked up the stone steps into the Entrance Hall, where the delicious smells of dinner wafted towards them from the Great Hall.
"Poor old Snuffles," said Ron, breathing deeply. "He must really like you, Harry... imagine having to live off rats.

J.K. Rowling

#18. I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Daisy Fuentes

#19. Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Irving Thalberg

#20. Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

Jacques Kallis

#21. No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Irving Thalberg

#22. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Steven Wright

#23. Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Irving Thalberg