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Fate keeps on happening.
Gentlemen prefer blondes.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Does this boat go to Europe, France?
There's nothing colder than chemistry.
The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.
Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
I've always loved high style in low company.
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.