Top 40 Quotes About Howard Hughes
#1. Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
Jane Greer
#2. I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
Martin Scorsese
#3. The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Gene Tierney
#4. The Howard Hughes thing hadn't actually sounded like such a bad deal until about ... oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.
Heidi Betts
#5. Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god ... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Martin Scorsese
#6. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
#7. I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
Martin Scorsese
#8. Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
Esther Williams
#9. After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Michael J. Fox
#10. Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.
Michael O'Donoghue
#11. My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.
Jean Peters
#12. Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.
Jon Stewart
#13. They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
Jane Russell
#15. Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
Howard Hughes
#16. One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.
Howard Hughes
#17. First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.
Tim Story
#18. Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.
Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel
#19. The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.
Howard Hughes
#20. If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.
Howard Hughes
#21. Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
Howard Hughes
#22. I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
William Howard Taft
#23. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Howard Hughes
#24. I wanted to see New York ... so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.
Howard Hughes
#25. Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
Howard Hughes
#26. I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
Howard Hughes
#27. The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
Howard Hughes
#29. I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.
Howard Hughes
#30. Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?
Howard Hughes
#32. I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
Howard Hughes
#33. I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes
#34. I sleep. In this room. In the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean.
Howard Hughes
#35. Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.
Howard Hughes
#37. I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
Howard Hughes
#38. Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
Howard Hughes
#39. We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
Howard Hughes
#40. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Howard Hughes
