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There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

There's No Business Like Show Business

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Berlin, Irving. "There's No Business Like Show Business." Annie Get Your Gun. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1946, Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

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Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company.

William Moulton Marston

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Marston, William Moulton. Quoted in "Professor to Cure Scenarios with Wrong Emotional Content: Dabbled in Movies While at Harvard; Now Sought by Hollywood with Offer of Favorable Contract" written by Henry W. Levy. New York University News, 8 Jan. 1929.

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

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The First Wives Club. Directed by Hugh Wilson, Paramount Pictures, 1996.

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A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Wilson Mizner

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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Barrymore, Ethyl. Quoted in The Theatre in the Fifties, written by George Jean Nathan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

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Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Bob Hope

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Hope, Bob. "Opening Monologue." Oscar Awards Ceremony. 19 Mar. 1953, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CA, USA.

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