Quotes About Talkies

#1. My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Kent Beck

#2. In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.

Tony Bennett

#3. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Mary Pickford

#4. In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Conrad Veidt

#5. Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching Christmas-red tracksuit with matching walkie-talkies as we troll Ralphs, excitedly comparing triple coupons.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#6. I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

Lillian Gish

#7. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

Alain Resnais

#8. John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

Eve Golden

#9. I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

Alain Resnais

#10. I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

Berenice Bejo

#11. Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#12. The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

Kevin Brownlow

#13. Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Dalton Trumbo

#14. A man has to think of his soul before everything else.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

Jim C. Hines

#16. Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia.

C.S. Lewis

#17. I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

Laura Gilpin

#18. I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there's this burden. I've got to get rid of it somehow. Of course, when I first went back to work I was scared the same thing might happen again. It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you'll carry around this victim mentality forever.

Haruki Murakami

#19. We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Yasmina Khadra

#20. I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Terrell Owens

#21. Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship.

William Paul Young

#22. I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

Chen-Ning Yang

#23. In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

Ernst Hanfstaengl