"She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for
the same reason that midgets are good at being short."
Clive James talking about Marilyn
Monroe
"I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country
what it once was - an Arctic region covered with ice."
Steve Martin
"A plumber's idea of cleopatra."
W. C. Fields talking about Mae West
"I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice. . .She
was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick."
Arthur Lee on Janis Joplin
"A hack writer who would have been considered fourth
rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven
'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color
to intrigue the superficial and the lazy."
William Faulkner on Mark Twain
"Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born
that way?"
Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol
"I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when
he did not fall in love with me"
Gina Lollogrigida on Rock Hudson
"If pople don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes
out and stands where they are sitting."
Herman J. Mankiewicz
"The biggest no-talent I ever worked with."
Paul Cohen on Buddy Holly
"The stupid person's idea of a clever person."
Elizabeth Bowen on Aldous Huxley
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