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INSULTING FAMOUS FOLK
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge talking about
Mozart
Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born
that way?
Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol
I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he
did not fall in love with me
Gina Lollogrigida on Rock
Hudson
I married your mother because I wanted children,
imagine my disappointment when you came along.
Groucho Marx
"Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music
before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi
Bear."
Mick Ronson
Here lies my wife: here let her lie !
Now she's at rest and so am I
John Dryden on his wife
"If pople don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out
and stands where they are sitting."
Herman J. Mankiewicz
"He emits an air of overwhelming vanity combined
with some unspecific nastiness, like a black widow
spider in heat. But nobody seems to notice. He could
be reciting 'Fox's Book of Martyrs' in Finnish and
these people would be rolling out of their seats."
Roger Gellert on John Cleese
"A hyena that wrote poetry in tombs."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante
"The biggest no-talent I ever worked with."
Paul Cohen on Buddy Holly
"The stupid person's idea of a clever person."
Elizabeth Bowen on Aldous
Huxley
"It is only too easy to catch people's attention by
doing something worse than anyone else has dared to
do it before."
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