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Vintage snapshots and iconic quotations from the legendary stars of Classic Hollywood. Cinephile, Blogger, Artist https://silverscreenclassicsnostalgia.blogspot.com/

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

"In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face if you can imagine that"---Joan Blondell 1930. ❤️
#JoanBlondell

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · 24d

“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”— Diane Keaton

#DianeKeaton

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jul 30

"If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular."-- Jean Arthur

#JeanArthur

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jul 22

“I adored Natalie Wood. She was incredibly generous, which not many people in our industry are. She was extremely driven and in charge of her career, yet Natalie had a vulnerability about her.”— Robert Redford

#NatalieWood
#RobertRedford

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jul 9

"I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes."-- Jean Harlow

#JeanHarlow

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jul 9

"If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it."-- James Earl Jones

#JamesEarlJones

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jun 25

"A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words."-- Lee Van Cleef

#LeeVanCleef

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jun 23

“If you don't think about men and sex while you're dancing, your body won't say anything."- Vera-Ellen

#VeraEllen

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”

🎂Remembering Marilyn Monroe, born on this day June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, CA.

#MarilynMonroe

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · May 25

"The big secret in playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong."
—Steve Cochran

#SteveCochran

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · May 21

“ I worked hard. It was full of disappointment and joy, discouragement and rewards. I'll be forever grateful for all those wonderful years.”— Robert Montgomery

#RobertMontgomery

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'
Remembering Joseph Cotten, born on this day May 15, 1905.

#josephcotten

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · May 12

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."— Katharine Hepburn

#KatharineHepburn

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

“Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism”

🎉Remembering Gary Cooper, born on this day May 7, 1902 in Helena, Montana.

#GaryCooper #BOTD

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”

🎉Remembering Orson Welles, born on this day May 6th, 1915 in Kenosha, WI.

#orsonwelles

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Apr 28

“Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.”--

Norma Shearer

#NormaShearer

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Apr 24

“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”

--Will Rogers

#WillRogers

Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Apr 11

"... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph."- Harold Russell

#HaroldRussell

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

Remembering Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, born on this day 🎂 in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors"
#spencertracey

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren’t anybody.”Remembering Eldred Gregory Peck, born on this day 🎂in 1916 in La Jolla, CA.
#gregorypeck

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good."
Remembering Walter Huston, born on this day 🎂in Toronto, Canada in 1883.

#walterhuston

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Your word is your bond"
Remembering Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg aka Melvyn Douglas, born on this day 🎂in Macon, Georgia in 1901.

#melvyndouglas

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference."
--Bette Davis

#TCM #BetteDavis

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Apr 3

“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”—Doris Day

#DorisDay

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

“Singin’ in the Rain and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life”— Debbie Reynolds

#TCMParty #DebbieReynolds

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Silver Screen Star Quotes @starclassicquotes.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life"— Jane Powell

#TCMParty #JanePowell

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