Can I Quote You On That?

No big shakes here. Just a rather random assortment of celebrity quotes about other celebrities (or perhaps themselves.) Some of them kind, some of them not. I always enjoy hearing what one star has to say about another and hope one or more of these proves interesting to you! I tried to dig up rare photos whenever possible.

Claire Trevor once went back to see Judith Anderson after a performance of Medea. She had been truly bowled over and she said, "I simply can't find the words to tell you how superb you were." Judith Anderson just said, "Try." - ROCK HUDSON

She is the most uninhibited, sweet actress that I have ever met. She is quite unspoiled by success. Whenever she sees me, she says, "Oliver, you're so funny." She's the only person who's ever said that to me in my life. I'll sit there spilling my beer and she'll say, "You're so funny." - OLIVER REED on ANN-MARGRET

To understand those days you must consider that people believed what they saw on the screen. Nobody had destroyed the grand illusion. Audiences thought the stars were the way they saw them. Why, women kicked my photographs as they went into the theatres where my pictures were playing, and once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me. - THEDA BARA

All I can say is that when I'm trying to play serious love scenes with her, she's positioning her bottom for the best angle shots. - STEPHEN BOYD on BRIGITTE BARDOT

The most beautiful face of any man who went before the camera - LILLIAN GISH on RICHARD BARTHELMESS

One of the greatest bodies I've ever worked with. But besides that she is rather the opposite, because she is so damned intelligent. It's a strange combination, almost a double personality. - EDITH HEAD on JACQUELINE BISSET

I guess I thought it would be a good film [The Cobweb, 1955] - I had Richard Widmark and Charles Boyer as my co-stars. One as my husband, one as my lover. As it happens Widmark hated me and Boyer was a drunk. It was a disaster. - GLORIA GRAHAME

Actors like him are good but on the whole I do not enjoy actors who seek to commune with their armpits, so to speak - GREER GARSON on MARLON BRANDO

You're doing it the wrong way round, my boy. You're a star and you don't know how to act. - SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE to RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN

When I look into his face I can see everything he is thinking. But when I look into my own face I see absolutely nothing. I know what I'm thinking, but it doesn't show. - GRACE KELLY on GARY COOPER

I knew Joan during those days. Worked with her and was often at parties at her home; pool parties in the afternoon, when the children were there, and I never saw or heard anything that would give me a clue that the stories were true that the daughter wrote. I think whatever is truth about them has been exaggerated so that it makes her more of a monster than she was. - HENRY FONDA on JOAN CRAWFORD

I even found Bette Davis attractive, when I played Maximilian to her Carlotta [in Juarez, 1939] and, brilliant actress though she is, surely nobody but a mother could have loved Bette Davis at the height of her career. - BRIAN AHERNE

That face that she shows the world - smiling, only talking good, happy, tuned into God - as far as I'm concerned, that's just a mask. I haven't a clue as to what's underneath. Doris is just about the remotest person I know. KIRK DOUGLAS on DORIS DAY

Kirk was civil to me and that's about all. But then Kirk never makes much of an effort toward anyone else. He's pretty wrapped up in himself. The film I made with him, Young Man With a Horn (1953), was one of the few utterly joyless experiences I had in films.

I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, but he was a prick. Pardon my French. He was selfish and petulant, and believed his own press releases. On the set, he'd upstage and actor and step on his lines. Arrogant. But let him alone and he was brilliant. Nobody could touch him. - ROCK HUDSON on JAMES DEAN

I wasn't sure if I was going to encounter a teen idol or a professional, but I'm happy to report that Matt is a professional. He's very dedicated, very conscientious. He is very concerned about being a good actor and I think he's going to be around for a long time. - RICHARD CRENNA on MATT DILLON

I never met anyone with such a demoniacal drive to succeed as an actress - ESTELLE PARSONS on FAYE DUNAWAY

Trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles. Her conversation is clotted. - RODDY MCDOWALL on MIA FARROW

He was a tough guy. Make one wrong move and he'd never speak to you again. - PHIL HARRIS on BING CROSBY

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher - DEAN MARTIN on EDDIE FISHER