I was up to, I`m told, because, of course, you don`t remember if you drink that much, about two-and-a-half to three bottles of hard liquor a day. Fascinating idea, of course, drink on that scale. It`s rather nice to have gone through it and to have surviv...
Richard Burton
On his late Blazing Saddles (1974) star, Cleavon Little: "My rule was not to eat with actors, but I enjoyed him so much that I begged him to eat with me."
Mel Brooks
[New York Times interview, Oct. 16, 2005]: I regret turning down the lead role in Alice Doesn`t Live Here Anymore (1974) which Ellen Burstyn deservedly won an Oscar for. I said to myself: "Who is this Martin Scorsese person?".
Shirley MacLaine
[On playing "Vera Charles" in Mame (1974)] You know, the real name of this show is "Vera". The only reason they changed the name was because Jerry [lyricist Jerry Herman] couldn`t think of a rhyme for it. Stephen Sondheim could have.
Beatrice Arthur
When I started shooting "Police Woman" (1974), someone asked me if I had ever played a sleuth before. I said, "Yes, many times". I thought they were asking me if I had ever played a slut. I didn`t know what a sleuth was.
Angie Dickinson
[at Harvard in 1974, on being asked whether then-President Richard Nixon ever advised him on the making of his films] No, they`ve all been successful.
John Wayne
[interview in Le Devoir, 10/12/74] I don`t want to hear it said that I don`t like women! I tried to show in [Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)] that I adore them. They represent the positive pole of the film, the life force and instinct.
Sam Peckinpah
[quoted by Robert Osborne in "Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual"] I couldn`t exist just doing films. But on the other hand, there is the fame that comes with it, and the money. My problem is I still want to play Hamlet in some little theater somewhere, and...
Al Pacino
[1974] Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you, "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.
Liza Minnelli
On leaving George Harrison for Eric Clapton in 1974: "In my naivety, I believed everything was all right. He wasn`t taking heroin, which I thought was the main addiction for him. But, as it turned out, his drug of choice turned out to be alcohol."
Pattie Boyd
I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence. (On her role in Airport 1975 (1974))
Gloria Swanson
Reporter: "What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror after waking up in the morning?" Rita Hayworth: "Darling, I don`t wake up till the afternoon." (1974)
Rita Hayworth
[comparing The Godfather: Part II (1974) with "The Sopranos" (1999)] I don`t know anyone who curses the way they do in an Italian household. I never said the word "hell" in front of my mother. That was a different time, but I have sons and they have never...
Danny Aiello
After Dark Side we were really floundering around. I wanted to make the next album more musical, because I felt some of these tracks had been just vehicles for the words. We were working in 1974 in this horrible little rehearsal room in Kings Cross withou...
David Gilmour
On Thriller - en grym film (1974) and its influences on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "And that is, of all the revenge movies I`ve ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There`s never been anything as tough as that m...
Quentin Tarantino
I`ve wanted an Oscar since I was seven years old. It is the basis of all my secret fantasies. -- quoted by Robert Osborne in "Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual".
Ellen Burstyn
[quoted by Robert Osborne, "Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual"] I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I`m really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
Robert Redford
When we signed our deal in 1974, we`d already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
Alex Lifeson
When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.
Ami Brophy
Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.
Franz Beckenbauer
I`m looking forward to the opportunity to wear the uniform of the United States, and to the challenge of trying to bring the baseball World Cup back to America for the first time since 1974.
Anthony Mancuso