Moss Hart Quotes

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

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• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Season

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  

  Ovid
  • Matter
  • Easy
  • Anybody

• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Love
  • Matter

• It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Always
  • Matter

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
  • Understand
  • Hollywood

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Matter
  • Mental

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • People
  • Reason
  • Number

• If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Failure
  • Selfish

• I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Hurt
  • Gestures
  • Punches

• You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Want
  • Feels

• There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Matter
  • Hollywood
  • Earthquakes