Celebrity quotes about other celebrities

[HWBL]

"Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her.
Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn
Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will
undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."
Billy Wilder, who directed Marilyn in the legendary "Some Like It Hot"
and "The Seven Year Itch".

[HWBL]

More quotes of celebs about celebs.
Again: I have mostly material on and from my wrinkly hunk Warren Beatty,
so bear with me

"Marlon and I carried on a contest of remembering
telephone numbers. I'd say something like, Eldorado
5-2800' and he'd say 'That would be the Sherry-
Netherland.' The only number I was able to stump him on
was 275-4301. He'd say 'I know that number, I know that
number....' I said: 'Gotcha! It's your number!'"
Warren Beatty on one of the games he and Marlon
Brando played together for years.


"Diane is a person who can easily and interestingly
and entertainingly seem to be in a constant state of
ambivalence."
Warren Beatty on one time lover, now friend
Diane Keaton.


"I was on a plane on my way to Jamaica and Warren
was on that same plane. He came and introduced himself
to me and we had a lovely talk and when we landed, Cary
Grant met me and Leslie Caron met him. He was ravishing,
charming, just drop-alive gorgeous."
Dyan Cannon on meeting Beatty for the first time
in the mid-sixties.


"He is not a talker. You can tell him your deepest,
darkest secrets, and you can be well sure that he will
take that with him."
Goldie Hawn about Beatty's integrity and discretion.


"It was a tiny one-bedroom apartment with this enormous
wraparound terrace. You went up to the top floor and then
walked up a flight of stairs. It was the most perfect place
for Warren because it was weird and very romantic and
very glamorous. He lived there long after he could have
afforded to move somewhere else."
Robert Benton (co-writer of Bonnie&Clyde) about
Warren's tiny roof-apartment at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel,
that had a 360-degree view.


"One night Richard Harris - who was very feisty in his
younger days - got into the elevator with us. He was right
behind Warren and was drunk and hostile and daring Warren
to turn around, 'That bastard!'. Warren finally turned
around and kissed him on the mouth. And Harris was so
shocked, when we hit the lobby he said 'So what are
you doing?' And Warren said 'I'm going for coffee.'
And Harris said 'Let's go!' Warren is brilliant at defusing
a situation like that."
Robert Benton (co-writer of Bonnie&Clyde) about
Warren's encounter with a drunk Richard Harris.


"Over the time that I knew him, it was my impression
that Bobby Kennedy made the most impressive development
of anyone that I had met. I thought that Bobby would have
made a great president. You know, he had his faults, and he
changed them. He was very unpretentious. Had a great sense
of humor. He had a real passion, a real feeling of mission,
and he was not afraid of words. He was not afraid to step
up to the words."
Warren Beatty on working for and becoming friends
with Robert Kennedy.


"Now, maybe he loved too many women in his early days.
But it wasn't all about sexuality. It was about his tenderness.
Warren by nature is a caretaker. Yes, he's maddening. Yes,
he's stubborn. But the bottom line is the nature of that
animal is good. His intentions are pure. I was never one of
his girls. I didn't want that caption. Maybe I loved him too
much. Warren really, really is the brother I never had."
Goldie Hawn about how she sees Beatty and what
she feels for him.


"I was never one of his girls, either, but not because
I wanted him for a brother. I don't look at that
and think 'brother', in any way, shape or form."
Dyan Cannon on how she sees/saw Beatty.


"We all know that Warren was the premier - how shall
I put it? The sexual symbol? - of his time. He was a sex
object. If I were gay, he would be the first guy that I
would want to be with. He's got it. He'll always have it.
I love women, too. I must assume he had a wonderful
mother because for a man, the paradigm for womanhood
is your mother. She had to be amazing because his
feelings for women are elevated."
Paul Sorvino three time co-star and friend on how
he sees and feels about Beatty.


"When we were working on 'Ishtar', he'd come up to
the apartment and all my kids were there. He was like the
Pied Piper - a magnet. It had nothing to do with his celebrity.
They didn't know his movies. And he would sit in the living
room with the kids around him for hours and enthrall them.
They also liked the fact that Warren is so big, in contrast
to me. I was carrying my son Jake, who was six at the time,
on my shoulders one day and he said, 'I know why you
like to carry me on your shoulders, Dad. It makes you
taller than your friend Warren.' I think they got so excited
when he'd visit because he treated them exactly like he
would treat adults. Back then, my wife, Lisa, and I were
like 'What's the matter with this guy? Why isn't he married
with kids?' I finally said to him, 'Do you really want to be in
the place you are now when you are 70 years old?' He
was ready then, and it happened to him not that much
later. Lisa picked up the phone and Warren was on the other
end, heaving - sobbing, actually. She knew Annette was
in labor and she thought something went wrong with the
birth, and finally he said, 'I have a daughter'."
Dustin Hoffman two time co-star and one of Warren's
closest friends on Beatty's evolution from bachelor, "uncle"
to fatherhood.

^Hoffman and Beatty in Ishtar,
Annette and Warren with Kathlyn in 1993,
Warren with 15 year old Kathlyn in 2007.

[Eli]

I always loved that one Mark Wahlberg said about Madonna. "I like Madonna but she looks like Beetlejuice."

[HWBL]

I came upon this cute article, with a mention of
my geriatric studmuffin, Warren Beatty :

A-List Style- Ventana Monthly

A-List Style



WARREN BEATTY: “He was a very nice guy, not at all ‘precious.’
He said he was considering making a movie about Bonnie and Clyde,
and asked what I thought about shooting a gangster movie in color…
We worked around a little bit for this shot. He had on a white shirt
and a tie. I had a black sweater in the dressing room, and asked if
he’d put that on. Well, first I asked if he’d take his shirt off, but he
said no (laughs). I just wanted to get some edge—something interesting,
rather a tie and white shirt. So he came back in and I said, ‘Instead of
sitting in a chair, why don’t you get down on the floor.’ And I got down
on the floor and started shooting these pictures with available light.
He got very comfortable with that, and started working with his hands
around the face to prop himself up. Something clicks when you know
you’re onto something. When I got to this, I knew it was happening.
And that’s the excitement of an assignment. It’s something you can’t
plan. It’s something you just work with, and work and work and work
until it happens—in that little frame.”
The photography of Ventura’s Neal Barr—in his own words

"I remember the first time I ever saw Warren. I must have been
about 26," gushed Diane Keaton, who starred in the actor-director's
Oscar-winning Reds. "It was at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. They used to
have a bookstore there, and I was inside, and I looked out and saw him
in the lobby. I thought, 'My God, he's so beautiful'. It was like there was
a light. He looked at me for a second, and then passed me by. I thought,
'I'll never know him.' The Annie Hall star did join the ranks of Beatty's
babes, alongside stunners Catherine Deneuve, Faye Dunaway, Elle
MacPherson, Diana Ross, Melanie Griffith and Janice Dickinson.

^There's about 9 years between Keaton and Beatty, so if she saw
him at 26, he was in his mid thirties and looked something like this:


PS: of course the article was wrong about Faye Dunaway being
romantically linked to Beatty: she was only his co-star in Bonnie&Clyde.

[bychance]

Where is everyone getting all this from? I want to know.lol

[DitaPage*]

Gwyneth Paltrow: "A stripper with a Budweiser in each hand." (Ben Affleck's ideal woman)

[sputnik]

Originally Posted by Voodoo Child

".....As Warren Beatty's fingertips."
Woody Allen's answer to the question how he would most
like to be reincarnated.

Omg. Bad bad bad bad bad. Yuk!

i love that quote!

these came to mind:

bob dylan on brian wilson: "That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian"

"His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes."
- Keith Richards (about Elton John).

and there's that noel gallagher one about hoping blur would 'catch aids and die'

[DitaPage*]

I just discovered this one from Marilyn Manson about Dita Von Teese. What a classy way to put it.


"It takes a strong woman to bear the burden of ass-fucking and I respect any girl that does and I buy her a lot of jewellery. I kick the ones that don’t out of my house."

[sparkly]

Originally Posted by HWBL

^Hoffman and Beatty in Ishtar,
Annette and Warren with Kathlyn in 1993,
Warren with 15 year old Kathlyn in 2007.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you think Warren Beatty is cute.

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by sparkly

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you think Warren Beatty is cute.

Warren who?

[HWBL]

I found two more quotes of celebs on Warren, dating from
the 1992 during or right after "Bugsy" in the article below.
Co-star Wendy Philips (who played Bugsy's wife)
and the movie's producer Mark Johnson.

[Chalet]

"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant".

~~Cary Grant

[DitaPage*]

^ I'd love his confidence.

"If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped down to a chair and put Mariah Carey on over and over again. That would be eternal hell for me. I mean it. The worst."
-Cameron Diaz

[HWBL]

"When Warren Beatty called a girl up, it was usually to try to get her
into the sack. But he called me to find out what kind of bologna I used.
I just don’t have what it takes, I guess. Raquel Welch has what it takes.
She’s so sexy and gorgeous, even I want to jump on her!"
Beautiful Suzanne Pleshette about herself (and Warren and Raquel).

"We did our first screen test together. He was so good-looking
and all his male friends were gay. What were the odds he wasn't?” "
Jane Fonda about Warren Beatty.

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Estelle Parsons, to some perhaps best known as the whiny Bev Harris,
mother of TV's Roseanne and Jackie Harris.


"Warren, I love. He's extremely charming. When we did 'Bonnie and Clyde,'
it was his first time as a producer. He has a fantastic mind, and such passion
and conviction. I was lucky to work with him."
Estelle Parsons, Beatty's co-star in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Dick Tracy".


"Gene, I love. Before we did 'Bonnie and Clyde,' we had worked in the
theatre together. We had the same rhythms as actors; people thought
we were madly in love. Gene wanted to be a movie star. I said, 'Don't be
silly. Stay in the theatre.' Before I got the movie ["Bonnie and Clyde"],
Dusty [Dustin Hoffman], Gene, and I were doing a Murray Schisgal play,
Fragments, at the Berkshire Playhouse."
Estelle Parsons, Hackman's co-star in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "I Never Sang for My Father".