Joseph Cotten Quotes

#1. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#2. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.

Kevin Wilson

#3. Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

Natalie Cole

#4. Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

Elizabeth Berg

#5. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

#6. Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

Joseph Cotten

#7. LOGAN: I think you spend too much time believing what other people see, rather than what you think.

Sam Crescent

#8. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp

#9. I didn't care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do.

Joseph Cotten

#10. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Dolly Parton

#11. My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with ... she read hers out and there were no surprises ... 1 George Clooney ... 2 Brad Pitt etc ... I thought 'Ive got the better deal here' ... 1 Your sister

Michael McIntyre

#12. Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Charles Dickens

#13. My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

Joseph Cotten

#14. Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.

Carl Sagan