Irving Thalberg Quotes

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Irving Thalberg

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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• I am the original 'Material Girl.'

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Original
  • Material Girl

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • City
  • Garden

• Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Worst part is the post project low that seems to happen after being on a project that you love. I don’t hate things, but I really really passionately dislike going from being around a 'film family' every day and loving every minute of it, then after the film is over you rarely see each other again and if you do its very few and far in between.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Family
  • Hate

• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Savage

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Why
  • Past
  • Breakup

• The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Night
  • Dance
  • Saturday

• My family was perfect.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Family
  • Perfect

• About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

  

  Max Walker
  • World
  • Art
  • Sports

• I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.

  

  Don Lemon
  • People
  • Truth
  • Proud

• For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Sports

• The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

  

  Libby Trickett

• I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Trying
  • Religious

• As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Rip

• Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

  

  Alfred Doblin
  • Different
  • Alone
  • Listening

• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  

  Irving Thalberg