Top 28 Thalberg Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.
Charles Busch
#3. 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
#4. This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Henry Ward Beecher
#5. 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
#6. Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
Franz Grillparzer
#8. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
Giulio Douhet
#9. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
Irving Thalberg
#10. The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg
#11. 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
#12. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
#13. I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
Quentin Tarantino
#14. A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg
#16. 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
#17. Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
Natalie Portman
#18. Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
#19. Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.
John Bruna
#20. It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
China Mieville
#21. Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg
#24. There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.
Gary Player
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
Wes Borland
#28. The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.
Sabaa Tahir
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