16 Quotes by Old Hollywood Stars to Inspire Your Conversation Marketing

December 30, 2007

1. “Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.” - Jimmy Stewart
2. “My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’” - Cary Grant
3. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” - Judy Garland
4. “A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.” - Humphrey Bogart
5. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” - Audrey Hepburn
6. “You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide” - Ingrid Bergman
7. “Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” - Alfred Hitchcock

8. “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.” - Frank Capra

9. “An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.” - Billy Wilder
10. “The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.” - Clark Gable
11. “Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” - Lucille Ball
12. “Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.” - Ginger Rogers

13. “I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.” - Fred Astaire

14. “Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can’t provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.” - Gene Tierney

15. “I don’t lecture and I don’t grind any axes. I just want to entertain.” - Gregory Peck
16. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” - Danny Kaye

Posted in Conversation Marketing by Nathania Johnson