“Everybody obviously wants deeply to laugh at anything today. It's like the war years in that people wants escapism, big escapism. What the devil, it's a nervous world we live in. But it's the affluent society too and we're all on a spending spree.”
Burt Lancaster

“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
W.C. Fields

“It would have been more logical if silent movies had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way round.”
Mary Pickford

“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
Burt Lancaster

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster