Longworth Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally. — Karina Longworth

One of the reasons why I failed was because I figured out in the research process that I couldn't tell it as just, "This is what Frances Farmer's life was like." There are so many questions as to what her life was like because of the way her story has been seized upon and exploited by different factions. — Karina Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story. — Karina Longworth

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, but they tend to focus on the episodes that have more to do with the murder, Charles Manson doing something particularly weird, or Sharon Tate. — Karina Longworth

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done. — Karina Longworth

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century. — Karina Longworth

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil. — Karina Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other. — Katharine Graham

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth — Claudy Conn

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting. — Karina Longworth

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Above all grey clouds, there are clear blue skies" David Longworth — David Longworth

You can't make a souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than regional solutions]. — Richard C. Longworth

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him. — Karina Longworth

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week. — Karina Longworth

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex. — Karina Longworth

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place. — Karina Longworth

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable. — Katharine Graham

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view. — Karina Longworth

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected. — Karina Longworth

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star. — Karina Longworth

You can't make souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today. — Karina Longworth

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world. — Karina Longworth

[woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting. — Karina Longworth

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there. — Karina Longworth

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time. — Karina Longworth