Ziegfeld Quotes

#1. Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Anna Held

#2. I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.

Doris Eaton Travis

#3. She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally's fresh cup of coffee.

Libba Bray

#4. Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

Irene Dunne

#5. Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#6. Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#7. They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#8. People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside.

Michael Makai

#9. Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Edward Abbey

#11. The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Florenz Ziegfeld

#13. Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#14. To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#15. Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#16. And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#17. But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#18. How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#19. Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Harry Connick Jr.

#20. Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#21. I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#22. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#24. It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Florenz Ziegfeld