Gatsby Quotes
47 quotes by 32 authors
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The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
— Joel Edgerton
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I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as…
— Elizabeth Debicki
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not…
— Azar Nafisi
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Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is…
— Leslie Poles Hartley
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
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Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but…
— Jonathan Yardley
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The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be…
— Azar Nafisi
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I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability…
— Tom Perrotta
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Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting…
— Joel Edgerton
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I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
— Dree Hemingway
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then…
— Garrett Hedlund
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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and…
— Carey Mulligan
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I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
— John Green
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They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
— Robert Harris
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I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
— Hugh Hefner
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