Quotes About The Golden Age Of Hollywood

#1. People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

Cate Blanchett

#2. In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Truman Capote

#4. We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.

Cary Grant

#5. Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

Gabourey Sidibe

#6. Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Bryant McGill

#7. The constructs of organized thought are all around us, the golden age will come when they are freed.

Tom Althouse

#8. Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

Noel Redding

#9. I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Jimmy Stewart

#10. The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

#11. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

#12. I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

Julianne Hough

#13. If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

Howard Zinn

#14. I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. ... It's the party at present in power.

Peter Ustinov

#15. Don't you miss it?" I'd ask Aidan. "All that Hollywood sunshine?"
"It's like hating the color yellow," she'd say, "and living in a golden age.

Amber Dermont

#16. I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.

Ed Stetzer

#17. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Coward

#18. I wouldn't be caught dead marring a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tony Curtis

#19. Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Felix Rohatyn

#20. In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

Gabrielle Union

#21. Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Darryl F. Zanuck

#22. There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Jeffrey Kluger

#23. I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

Vivien Leigh

#24. I am, at heart, a gentleman.

Marlene Dietrich

#25. When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

Jalaja Bonheim

#26. I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

Yogi Berra

#27. Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

Manny Pacheco

#28. Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.

Kevin Systrom