"She was
good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that
midgets are good at being short."
Clive James also talking about Marilyn Monroe |
"I
believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was -
an Arctic region covered with ice."
Steve Martin |
"A
plumber's idea of cleopatra."
W. C. Fields talking about Mae West |
"I
couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice. . .She was just a screaming
little loudmouthed chick."
Arthur Lee on Janis Joplin |
"A hack
writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who
tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons
with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the
lazy."
William Faulkner on Mark Twain |
"Is he
just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?"
Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol |
"I knew
right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he did not fall in love
with me"
Gina Lollogrigida on Rock Hudson |
"If
pople don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they
are sitting."
Herman J. Mankiewicz |
"The
biggest no-talent I ever worked with."
Paul Cohen on Buddy Holly |
"The
stupid person's idea of a clever person."
Elizabeth Bowen on Aldous Huxley |
