Darryl Quotes

(on Darryl F. Zanuck) Zanuck never did anything but be nice to me. Oh yeah, maybe he chased Alice Faye around, but a lot of people chased Alice Faye around.

(Darryl F. Zanuck on The Grapes of Wrath (1940)) It`s a good picture. It`s meaty and down to earth. But I think it needs a happier ending.

(on Darryl F. Zanuck) Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napolean, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, and he was not a good writer.

I was always very shy but my older brother, Darryl, was working and my mother couldn`t leave me home alone so I was dragged along to the studio.

I would have loved to have been a `40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career. Now you don`t get a call from Darryl Zanuck saying, `Come do this movie on Monday.` So you have to do it on your own.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

I`m excited; I get to up against one of the best defensive ends in the country in Darryl Tapp, ... It`s hard to explain. When you got up against a guy that`s a really good player, you get a rush. You know that you and that man are about to clash heads to see who is going to come out on top. My goal, obviously, is to come out on top, but I know his goal is to come out on top. I know we`re definitely going to be going at it.