Cassell's Movie Quotations

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Cassell, 2000 - Performing Arts - 432 pages
Golden quotations from the silver screen! These are the unforgettable words that made us laugh and cry, and perhaps even shaped our view of life and love. Accompanying the over 4000 brilliant citations are critical judgments of the most celebrated movies ever made, commonly misquoted lines, and statements by the stars, directors, and other cinema personalities. More than 1,000 headings encompass films from the pioneering silent era right up to today's blockbusters. Remember this comic exchange from Airplane? Striker: Surely you can't be serious! Dr. Rumack: I am serious. And, don't call me Shirley. What about Bette Davis's cynical, classic utterance as Margo Harrington in All About Eve: Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Every one's a winner.

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About the author (2000)

Nigel Rees is the author of over 50 books, including The Cassell Dictionary of Humorous Quotations and The Cassell Companion to Quotations. He is the deviser and presenter of BBC Radio's Quote ... Unquote, through which he has become an authority on the popular use of language in slogans, catchphrases, clichés, idioms and quotations.

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