Cuffs Quote by Ben Hecht Download Open image “The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.” — Ben Hecht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cuffs Dubious Hollywood Honor Links Paper Tissue paper Tissues Writing
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of human intelligence,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.” — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour.… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs… — John Waite Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to let him… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
