“Difficult? Yes. But she was a wonderful comedienne and she had a charisma like no-one before or since. She wasn’t that enormously talented, but her gift was knowing how to use the special kind of talent she had to great advantage.”
Jack Lemmon On Marilyn Monroe

“Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality.”
Walter Matthau

“My talent falls within definite limits. I'm not a versatile actress.”
Greta Garbo

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke