"Few explanations ever explained the necessity of making one."  - - - Elbert Hubbard
celebrity quotations
 CELEBRITY QUOTES
My philosophy of life . . .

Between two evils, I always choose the one I never tried before. - - Mae West

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. - - Eva Gabor


                                                                All about me . . .

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. - - Ava Gardner
God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants. - - Jonathan Winters
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. - - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. - - Jean Cocteau
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - - Muhammad Ali

I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important. Like a league game or something.  - - Dick Butkus
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men. - - Janet Reno
There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up. - - Pat Boone
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - - Oscar Levant
I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. - - Robert Frost


 Why I'm so great . . .

I may not be a great actress but I’ve become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.  - - -Candice Bergen, 1984
I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll. - - Elton John
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. - - Imelda Marcos
I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.  - - Michael Flatley

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.   - - David Lee Roth
I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.   - - Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.  - - Linda Evangelista, 1997
People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input, I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting down. And I'm not scared to say what I think.
- - Linda Evangelista
I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage. - - Elizabeth Taylor


OK, OK, sometimes I'm not too bright . . .

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. - - Marshall McLuhan
I never know how much of what I say is true. - - Bette Midler
I have nothing intelligent to say. - - Meg Tilly, when approached by a TV repporter asking questions on her way into the 1997 Oscar ceremonies.
I am not denying anything I did not say. - - -Brian Mulrooney
I really didn't say everything I said. - - Yogi Berra

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
- - Keanu Reeves
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. - - -Jane Austen
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
- - -Burt Reynolds
I’m no actor, and I have sixty-four pictures to prove it. - - -Victor Mature
There are two reasons why I’m in show business, and I’m standing on both of them. - - -Betty Grable

Of all the things I've ever lost I miss my mind the most. - - Steven Tyler


Let me make one thing perfectly clear . . .

I am not a crook. - - Richard Nixon
I'm not smart enough to lie. - - Ronald Reagan
I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me.
- - Vanessa Williams
I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay. - - Oprah Winfrey
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life- ever. - - Bill Clinton

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. - - David Dinkins
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference. - - Jack Kerouac
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. - - Katherine Hepburn
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring. - - -Tom Waits
I’ve made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one. - - -Norman Mailer

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - - -Oscar Levant
Success didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable. - - -Fran Lebowitz


My philosophy on success . . .

I don't meet competition. I crush it. - - Charles Revson
I’m not the type to get ulcers. I give them. - - -Ed Koch
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. - - Jack Nicholson, 1993
I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. - - -Calvin Coolidge
I don't read books, I write them. - - Henry Kissinger

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. - - Ed Koch
When I sing, people shut up. - - -Barbra Streisand
If people screw me, I screw back in spades. - - Donald Trump
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. - - -John Lennon 


What I think about sex . . .

I’ve tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. - - -Tallulah Bankhead (1972)
I have to be physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough. - - Courteney Cox
Women need a reason to have sex -- men just need a place. - - Billy Crystal.
I should never have married, but I didn't want to live without a man. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. - - Bette Davis
Personally I know nothing about sex because I've always been married. - - Zsa Zsa Gabor

If I were asked for a one line answer to the question "What makes a woman good in bed?" I would say, "A man who is good in bed." - - Bob Guccione (1978)
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. - - -Billy Joel
Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got and 50 per cent what people think you've got.
- - Sophia Loren
Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book. - - -Madonna (1991)
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. - - -Norman Mailer (1992)

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle. - - Camille Paglia


My thoughts on drugs & alcohol . . .

Cocaine habit forming? Of course not, I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
- - Tallulah Bankhead
I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.
- - W. C Fields
The only thing I thought might ever kill me off was clean living. I thought, "How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?"  - - Iggy Pop 


My thoughts on people . . .

I like children. If they're properly cooked. - - W. C. Fields
I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night. - - Greg Louganis
I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. - - Lyndon B. Johnson
I love New York City; I've got a gun. - - Charles Barkley 


My thoughts on men and women . . .

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America. - - Rush Limbaugh
The movie business divides women into ice queens and sluts, and there have been times I wanted to be a slut more than anything. - - Sigourney Weaver
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. - - Warren Beatty, 1997
I don’t think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous. . . . Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible. - - -Marlon Brando (1994)
God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. - - Robin Williams

I dress for women, and undress for men. - - Angie Dickinson
I like men to behave like men - strong and childish. - - Françoise Sagan
I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.
- - Marilu Henner
I love the male body, it’s better designed than the male mind. - - -Andrea Newman
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. - - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I like two kinds of men: domestic and imported. - - Mae West
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
- - -Madonna, 1991
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. - - Dorothy Parker
I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men. - - Dinah Shore


What I want out of life . . .

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.
- - Drew Barrymore (1998)
When I walk into a bookstore, I want to see my picture on the cover of every magazine, like Leonardo DiCaprio. - - Brandy
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. - - George Foreman
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses. - - Lyndon Johnson 


Let me explain some of life's little mysteries . . .

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. - - Carole Burnett
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. - - Mickey Dolenz, 1996
Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on. - - Ru Paul
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen. - - Dolly Parton
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.
- - -Tom Dreesen

"I always knew I'd look back at the tears and laugh, but I never thought that I'd look back at the laughs and cry."
"How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."
"To dislike yourself is to insult your friends."
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."

"Advice is what people ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
"Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood."
"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth, or burn down your house, you can never tell."
"Sometimes I wish I were a kid again - skinned knees are easier to fix than broken dreams."
"I'm not confused, I'm just well-mixed." -- Robert Frost

"It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 47 muscles to frown. Conserve energy."
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." -- Lucimar Santos de Lima
"People change and forget to tell each other." -- Lillian Hellman
Miller's Law: You cannot tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." -- John G. Riefenbaker
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -- Frank Scully

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill becomes any of us to find fault with the rest of us. -- Anonymous
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
-- Anonymous
A tip-off to an abusive family system is a situation in which nobody ever apologizes.
-- Karen Shaud
When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it.
-- Mildred Newman

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. -- Winston Churchill

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Babehot
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can do. -- Mark Twain
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves. -- Carl Jung

Crying only a little bit is no use. You must cry until your pillow is soaked. Then you can get up and laugh... -- Galway Kinnell
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
-- A. J. Cronin
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. -- Erwin T. Randall

We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. -- Philip S. Bernstein

Happiness is not a place to travel to. It's a way of getting there. -- Anonymous
When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it.
-- Mildred Newman

A tip-off to an abusive family system is a situation in which nobody ever apologizes.
-- Karen Shaud

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
-- Anonymous
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill becomes any of us to find fault with the rest of us. -- Anonymous
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
 
If we feel a distance between us and the Lord; remember, it's not the Lord who has moved.
Speak well of your enemies ... you made them.
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear  the answer.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Smile:  if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder , is getting through the crowd  at the bottom.
 
Many people have the right aim in life, but never get around to pulling the trigger .
Stopping at third base  adds no more runs than striking out .
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm .
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "what happened?"

 
You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
Life is what happens to you  while you are making other plans.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
 
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
If you feel you have no faults, there's another one.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind , be sure you can get along with what you have left.
One day for church , six for fun; odds on going to heaven , six  to one .
 
 
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
 
famous insults
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."  - - - Katherine Hepburn
insulting criticism about notable women
"I'm always late.  My ancesters arrived on the Juneflower

Insulting quotes
SARCASM ABOUT NOTABLE WOMEN 
Face to Face Confrontations
I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body. - - - Walter Matthau (to Barbra Steisand) 
Actresses
Zsa Zsa Gabor
She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age.- - - Oscar Levant (about Zsa Zsa Gabor)
She not only worships the golden calf, she barbecues it for lunch.- - - Oscar Levant (about Zsa Zsa Gabor)
The only person who ever left the Iron Curtain wearing it.- - - Oscar Levant (about Zsa Zsa Gabor)
You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.- - - Bob Hope
Zsa Zsa Gabor has been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.- - - Henny Youngman
 
Katharine Hepburn
She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.- - - Cecil Beaton (about Katharine Hepburn)
She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.- - - Dorothy Parker (about Katharine Hepburn)
 
Marilyn Monroe
Her body has gone to her head.- - - Barbara Stanwyck (about Marilyn Monroe)
She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese.- - - Billy Wilder (about Marilyn Monroe)
She's a vacuum with nipples.- - - Otto Preminger (about Marilyn Monroe)

Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor looks like two small boys fighting underneath a thick blanket.- - - Mr. Blackwell
Elizabeth Taylor's so fat, she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.- - - Joan Rivers
Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.- - - Michael Todd (about Elizabeth Taylorr)


 Other Actresses
A great actress, from the waist down.- - - Dame Margaret Kendal (about Sarah Bernhardt)
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.- - - George Bernard Shaw (about Isadora Duncan)
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite sameness.- - - David Shipman (about Marlene Dietrich)
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.- - - Bette Davis (about Jayne Mansfield)
Hah! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy!- - - Ava Gardner (about Mia Farrow's marriage to Frank Sinatra)
It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what's between her ears instead of her legs.
- - - Katharine Hepburn (about Sharon Stone)
Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.- - - Tom Shales (about Farrah Fawcett)
Miss United Dairies herself.  - - - David Niven (about Jayne Mansfield)
She looks like she combs her hair with an eggbeater.- - - Louella Parsons (about Joan Collins)
She's like an apple turnover that got crushed in a grocery bag on a hot day.- - - Camille Paglia (about Drew Barrymore)
She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.- - - John Gielgud (about Ingrid Bergman)
She turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines. --- Joan Rivers (about Bo Derek)
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.- - - Robin Williams
The worst and most homeliest thing to hit the screens since Liza Minelli.- - - John Simon (about Shelley Duvall)
Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it. - - - Bosley Crowther (about Loretta Youung)

 Athletes
Martina was so far in the closet she was in danger of being a garment bag.  - - - Rita Mae-Brown (about Martina Navratilova)

Comics
I treasure every moment that I do not see her. - - - Oscar Levant (about Phyllis Diller)
Roseanne Barr is a bowling ball looking for an alley. - - - Mr. Blackwell
The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered. - - - Johnny Carson
When it comes to acting, Joan Rivers has the range of a wart.  - - - Stewart Klein

Musicians

Madonna
Armed with a wiggle and a Minnie Mouse squawk, she is coarse and charmless.  - - - Sheila Johnson (about Madonna, 19887)
I look at my friendship with her as like having a gall stone. You deal with it, there is pain, and then you pass it. That's all I have to say about Schmadonna.  - - - Sandra Bernhard (about Madonna)
Not in this lifetime. Why? Because I'm the only one she hasn't done it to.  - - - Sharon Stone (when told Madonna has said she wants to kiss her)
She is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. - - - Morrissey (about Madonna, 1986)
She is so hairy, when she lifted up her arm, I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit. - - - Joan Rivers (about Madonna) 


Other Musicians
All legs and hair with a mouth that could swallow the whole stadium and the hot-dog stand. - - - Laura Lee Davies (about Tina Turner)
Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed.  - - - Ralph Novak (about Yoko Ono)
I didn't know her well, but after watching her in action I didn't want to know her well.  - - - Joan Crawford (about Judy Garland)
If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.  - - - Joan Rivers (about Yoko Ono)
A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat. - - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)

Politicians
A senescent bimbo with a lust for home furnishings. - - - Barbara Ehrenreich (about Nancy Reagan)
Attila the Hen. - - - Clement Freud (about Margaret Thatcher)

Writers
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." - - - Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)
In her last days, she resembled a spoiled pear. - - - Gore Vidal (about Gertrude Stein)
She bellies up to the gourmet crackerbarrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work.  - - - Florence King (about Molly Ivins)
She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen. - - - Odell Shepherd (about Louisa May Alcott)
To those she did not like . . . she was a stiletto made of sugar. - - - John Mason Brown (about Dorothy Parkker)

Miscellaneous
Notable Women:

She looked like a huge ball of fur on two well-developed legs.  - - - Nancy Mitford (about Princess Marggaret, 1959)
No woman of our time has gone further with less mental equipment.  - - - Clifton Fadiman (about Clare Boothh Luce)
She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else. - - - Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York)
She looks like something that would eat its young.  - - - Dorothy Parker (about Dame Edith Evans)
She must use Novocain lipstick. - - - Jack Paar (about Dorothy Kilgallen)
She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly.  - - - Clifton Fadiman (about Gertrude Stein)
She was divinely, hysterically, insanely malevolent. - - - Bette Davis (about Theda Bara)
She's about as feminine as a sidewalk drill. - - - Maryon Allen (about Phyllis Schlafly)
Timid? As timid as a buzzsaw. - - - George Ells (about Hedda Hopper)



                                         © 1996 Hazelden Foundation  from the book Today's Gift
Some of these quotes can be found in: Susan's Quote Book 
  The source for some of these quotes:  Trivial Trivia
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