Curiously Quotes

"I do think the Olympics are a curiously male obsession. Who can run the fastest from here to here? You know what I think? Who gives? Because if you`re not running to catch a bus or running to buy me a bunch of flowers, I don`t care." Her thoughts on the Olympics.

No, I`m not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn`t persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who`s kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that`s all.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

I wouldn`t do just any picture. I didn`t even care, at first, to play in Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore. But Mr. Griffith approved it, and all my friends argued in favor of it, and now I am glad that I did it. Curiously enough, I had never seen Mr. Barrymore either on stage or the screen. I told him that we he telephoned me about the picture and he said, "Perhaps you have heard of me!" I thought he might not want me after that, but he did. He had seen me, it seems, in Dream Street and thought we were much the same physical type. Built long, I suppose he mean`t.