17 Quotations by Ben Hecht
- 1. A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets ...

- 2. Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo ...

- 3. Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo ...

- 4. I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte ...

- 5. I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

- 6. I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both ...

- 7. In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro ...

- 8. In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- 9. In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...

- 10. Love is a hole in the heart.

- 11. Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors ...

- 12. Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par ...

- 13. Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to

- 14. Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

- 15. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t ...

- 16. We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among ...

- 17. When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t ...

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