Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959

Topics

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Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Jesse Metcalfe

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With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

Andre Holland

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I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.

John Quelch

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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Steve Coogan

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When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.

Steve Erickson

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When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Tom Hanks

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Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Mitt Romney

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In my singles run, I would have to say my ladder match with Dolph Ziggler in Cleveland for the Intercontinental Title was probably a career highlight for me. If throwing that pretty boy through a ladder isn't fun, I don't know what is.

Luke Harper

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I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

JoJo

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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Douglas Brinkley

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For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

Donald Tusk

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