She and Richard Chamberlain were completely miscast. Augh! It was painful! I should have played that part! She was supposed to be a passionate older woman in love with this beautiful young priest.
I said right then and there that I never wanted to be like that….” –Jane Powell| "I watched Barbara Stanwyck in THE THORN BIRDS. Miss Wyman looks like a mystery nobody has bothered to solve.” –Marlene Dietrich|"I went on an MGM junket to Africa once, and Jeanette MacDonald had her own bottled water sent from Montana, and her own sheets, and she even slept in a certain direction facing the moon every night. She looks too much like a victim to play the heroine, and God knows she couldn’t play a woman of mystery – that was my part. I heard she’d only wanted to do it if she were billed above me, and she got her wish. I’d like to go over it with you because I’m not sure of the reason for the motivation that I have in dealing with the problem that I have….” And Hitchcock just looked at her and said, “Kim, it’s only a movie!” -James Stewart|"I thank God that neither I nor any member of my family will ever be so hard up that we have to work for Otto Preminger!" -Lana Turner|"I did one film for Alfred Hitchcock. She came up to Hitchcock and said, “About the next scene. We just didn’t believe it then…” –Olivia de Havilland|"Kim Novak was so darned serious on VERTIGO. Oh, he was just a villain, but I guess he was pretty good.
He was a tyrant, he was abusive, he was cruel. When I get a hold of her I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!” -Tallulah Bankhead|“Michael Curtiz was a savage, a real beast. And after all the nice things I’ve said about that hag. |"Don’t think I don’t know who’s been spreading gossip about me and my temperament out there in Hollywood, where that film was made -All About Me. “Bogart fell in love with the character Bacall played in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, so she had to keep playing it for the rest of her life.” –Director Howard Hawks|"It will be a tough job to get a satisfactory picture out of this material, but I believe it can be done." - Memo from screenwriter Wally Kline to Hal Wallis regarding CASBLANCA.
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