Mgm Quotes

• Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

  David O. Selznick

  Opinion, Share, Circumstances

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• I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

  Zadie Smith

  Years, People, Historical

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• I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

  Esther Williams

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• Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

  Joseph Barbera

  Years, Glory

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

  Joseph Barbera

  Fall, Empires, Lasts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

  Bob Balaban

  Years, Chicago, My Family

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• Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

  Esther Williams

  Husband, Drinking, Gambling

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• And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

  Davy Jones

  Vegas, Three, Seven Days

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• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Sixteen, Hospitality

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• When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Independent, Agents

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• I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

  Judy Garland

  Memorable, Age, Twelve

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• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  Ed Koch

  Age, Twelve, Born

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• MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

  Laraine Day

  Roles, Break, Casts

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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• In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Writing, Watches

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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• There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

  Tommy Rettig

  Dog, Brother, Rights

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• By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

  Rob Zombie

  Time, Art, Done

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• We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Encouragement, People, Listening

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• I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Compelling Reason, Government, Speaks Out

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• I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

  Laraine Day

  Enjoyed

  "Talking With Laraine Day". Classic Images Magazine Interview, May 31, 1996.

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• Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.

  Ann Rutherford

  Brother, Rivers, People

  "Lion of Hollywood" by Scott Eyman, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2005.

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• I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.

  Marion Davies

  Elephants, Office, Good Times

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• What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

  Buster Keaton

  Brother, Comedian, Goats

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Sharks, Wow

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