MGM Quotes

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures. (Laraine Day)
I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better! View quote
Laraine Day
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. View quote
Rod Taylor
Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building. View quote
Steve Irwin
(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM. View quote
Laraine Day
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. View quote
Esther Williams
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did. View quote
Esther Williams
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. View quote
Ann Rutherford
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. View quote
Bob Balaban
Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion. View quote
David O. Selznick
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience. (Davy Jones)
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. View quote
Lorna Luft
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. View quote
Solomon Burke
Greed is good. Taken from Ivan Boesky's speech saying ‘Greed is right.'... Gekko says he wrecks it ‘because it is wreckable.' There is an impulse in Gekko to take, to rape.... Kirk Kerkorian destroyed MGM and UA.... Buy both companies and destroy both. And that was the end of the movie business. UA and MGM were two great film companies. Suddenly they were one lousy company. Kerkorian did it for the money, like Gekko. He didn't care about film. Never. He sold it off in pieces. He cannibalized it. Just like Gekko. These guys do what suits their short-term. View quote
Oliver Stone
This was the heyday of the movies; it was hard to keep a level head and one's sense of values. MGM made over-worked, spoiled idols out of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Elizabeth Taylor; it wasn't the kids' fault, nor the studio's, it was the System. I too was on the spoiling list for a while, but I didn't go along with it. View quote
Lucille Ball
At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy. View quote
Rosalind Russell
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it. View quote
Carroll Baker
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects. View quote
David R. Ellis
From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands. View quote
Ann Rutherford
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. (Joseph Barbera)
When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it. View quote
George Sidney
I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style. View quote
Nellie McKay
I remember when I was doing a film with Fred Astaire, it was nothing for him to work three or four days on two bars of music. One evening in the dark grey hours of dusk, I was walking across the deserted MGM lot when a small, weary figure with a towel around his neck suddenly appeared out of the giant cube sound stages. It was Fred. He came over to me, threw a heavy arm around my shoulder and said: "Oh Alan, why doesn't someone tell me I cannot dance?" The tormented illogic of his question made any answer insipid, and all I could do was walk with him in silence. View quote
Fred Astaire
Say you've been to MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Disney Studios in Orlando, you'll know that there's an animation studio where you actually walk out of the back door of the animation studio and you're in a theme park. Now you say, hey, that's pretty cool. Could any animation studio have a sort of situation like that that is any cooler? And you think not. Well, you're wrong, I'd say, because here at Big Idea when we walk out our back door, We have the Timework button, we push the button, we open the door[...] and, we're in a mall. Disney has nothing on this. You can be animating one moment, buying candy by the pound the next, or taking a ride on a little train, or going to the food court. View quote
Phil Vischer