Ben Hecht Quotes

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. - Ben Hecht

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. - Ben Hecht

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with what the families have gone through. - Ben Hecht

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. - Ben Hecht

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. - Ben Hecht

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. - Ben Hecht

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. - Ben Hecht

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. - Ben Hecht

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. - Ben Hecht

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. - Ben Hecht

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