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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

  Laraine Day

  Giving, Dry, Want

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

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• When I was in Middle of The Night, MGM came and offered me a contract and I said that when I got out of the play, I'd like to try it. I didn't know anything about making movies but I was certainly finding it interesting.

  Gena Rowlands

  Night, Play, Interesting

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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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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• I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

  Charles Busch

  Thinking, Building, Auschwitz

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

  Angela Lansbury

  Eight, Years, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

  Nellie McKay

  Musical, Style, Kind

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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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• [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Might, Hello, Window

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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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• 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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• I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Mother, Ballet, Opera

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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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