In 1949 we stayed with one of my friends who had a book in which people were asked to write down their secret ambitions. Ronald Reagan wrote he`d like to be president. All those years ago!
Patricia Neal
[ater viewing Samson and Delilah (1949) starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature] Well, there`s just one problem. No picture can hold my interest where the leading man`s tits are bigger than the leading lady`s.
Groucho Marx
Of the movies I`ve done, there isn`t much I really like. The Gunfighter (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Twelve O`Clock High (1949) I feel were my best. (1956)
Gregory Peck
[After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)] The best way to survive an Oscar is to never try to win another one. You`ve seen what happens to some Oscar winners. They spend the rest of their lives turning down scripts while sea...
John Wayne
On posing nude for the calendar in 1949: "My sin has been no more than I have written, posing for the nude because I desperately needed fifty dollars to get my car out of hock."
Marilyn Monroe
How can a guy climb trees, say Me, Tarzan, you, Jane," and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn`t make-believe." [On his role as Tarzan in some 20 films between 1932 and 1949]
Johnny Weissmuller