““[Constance Bennett] never tired of acting, said Peter Plant. “She liked it, she enjoyed it, and she worked very hard at it. When she was making a film, she would really be busy preparing for the next day’s scenes. I would visit her for half an hour, and then she would go back to her script. She had what her father had, a photographic memory. Richard Bennett, I understand, could read a play through once, and he knew the whole play, and everyone else’s cues. I have the good fortune to have inherited that, and it’s made many people think me more intelligent than I am.””
![“[Constance Bennett] never tired of acting, said Peter Plant. “She liked it, she enjoyed it, and she worked very hard at it. When she was making a film, she would really be busy preparing for the next day’s scenes. I would visit her for half an hour, and then she would go back to her script. She…” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e8/eve-golden-25326_acting_constance-bennett-never-tired-of-acting_2876684.jpg)
![“We worked so hard,” [Joan Blondell] said, “and hardly ever had a day off . . . Saturday was a working day and we usually worked right into Sunday morning.” Joan’s good nature may have worked against her in the long run. While fellow Warner Brothers workers Bette Davis, James Cagney, Olivia de…” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a8/eve-golden-25326_long-run_we-worked-so-hard-joan-blondell-said-and_410251.jpg)
![“In 1990 [Claudette Colbert] wished Vanity Fair readers “a fabulous new decade. I’m praying to make it to 2000. After all, I’ll only be 97.” She didn’t quite make it.” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/066/eve-golden-25326_vanity-fair_in-1990-claudette-colbert-wished-vanity_502789.jpg)
![“[Joan Blondell] biographer, Matthew Kennedy, quotes her as admitting, “If I had taken myself more seriously . . . if I had fought for better roles as, say, Bette Davis did . . . I think I might have been a damned good dramatic actress. But it was just my way; I don’t think I ever had the security…” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d38/eve-golden-25326_quote_joan-blondell-biographer-matthew-kennedy_1304055.jpg)
![“When [Claudette Colbert] died at 92, on July 30, 1996, her front-page New York Times obit recalled her “wit, gaiety, cupid’sbow mouth and light touch . . . worldly and sophisticated yet down to earth.” Claudette herself was quoted, “I’ve always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you…” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fee/eve-golden-25326_york-times_when-claudette-colbert-died-at-92-on-jul_1435462.jpg)
