“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”— Meryl Streep #MerylStreep

“I’ve been through hell, and I’m grateful for every minute of it.”—Gene Tierney #GeneTierney

“I’ve reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.” —Veronica Lake…

“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

"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

“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

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

"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

"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

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

“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

"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

“ 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

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

"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

“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

“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

“Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.”-- Norma Shearer #NormaShearer

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

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

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

“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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

"The parts I play point out a moral. They show individuals who might have been different if they had been given a different chance"—Lon Chaney #LonChaney

“I was born in front of a camera and really don’t know anything else.”—Joan Crawford #JoanCrawford

“Give. Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow”– —Remembering Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, born on this day February 1932. #ElizabethTaylor

“If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.”—Gene Hackman #GeneHackman

"I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them." Kathleen Turner #KathleenTurner

“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.” Lucille Ball #LucilleBall

“It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.”--Eva Marie Saint #EvaMarieSaint

"I was beastly but never coarse, I high-class sort of heel"- George Sanders #GeorgeSanders

"I'm so grateful because I've become more respected as an actress. I think my style of acting is understood now, where it wasn't then, because, at that time in the '50s, I think there was some overacting, making it too broad — too obvious. I just was expressing myself as I…

"Method actors are like ham."- Clark Gable #ClarkGable

“In my era, we had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I’d whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel with seven red chow dogs to match my hair. Today they’re sensible and end up with better health-but we had more fun.”Clara Bow

“I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.”— Ida Lupino #IdaLupino

"I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it."-- Robert Mitchum

"Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why." -Paul Newman

"I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them."- Jeffrey Hunter

"I gave up Hollywood and I gave up pictures because I was always getting parts where I'd be the girl who says, 'Oh, Red!' in a Skelton movie. All I got were princess parts. A girl gets tired of being a princess all of the time."--Janet Blair 1945

"That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool."-- Charles Boyer #CharlesBoyer

"Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards."— Humphrey Bogart #HumphreyBogart

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time." —Ava Lavinia Gardner .#AvaGardner

“He was purely male without resorting to any of those muscle barbell distortions that ordinary " body beautiful" boys indulge in.”- Joan Crawford about Jeff Chandler #JeffChandler

"I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation."—Frank Sinatra #FrankSinatra

"Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage."--Gregory Peck #GregoryPeck