Famous quotes containing the words screen, gems, specialty, feature, film and/or studio:
“The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Too often when you thought youd be showered with confetti
What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti
Youve put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock
Yet you pause before your fathers door afraid to knock”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“... to a specialist his specialty is the whole of everything and if his specialty is in good order and it generally is then everything must be succeeding.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
—Jean Cocteau (18891963)
“The studio people want me to do Good-bye Charlie for the movies, but Im not going to do it. I dont like the idea of playing a man in a womans bodyyou know? It just doesnt seem feminine.”
—Marilyn Monroe (19261962)