“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.”
- Charivari on Claude Monet