Van Johnson Quotes


Van Johnson

(on Audrey Hepburn) She`s a lady. When she participates in the Academy Awards, she makes all those starlets look like tramps. Thank you for your class, Audrey, you`re quite a lady. If anyone said anything derogatory about her, I`d push them in the river.

I thought we were doing a regular SBA loan, ... I did not know it come under the terrorism program.

I thought we were doing a regular SBA loan. I did not know it came under the terrorism program.

I thought we were doing a regular SBA loan. I did not know it come under the terrorism program.

We were looking to do something to make a difference ... She (Masekela) said she`d be happy to do it.

I can`t help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I`m not going to take it,

I see Africa as a market that is the next market to be tapped,

I don`t think it`s what many people are putting it out to be.

I thought we were doing a regular SBA loan, ... I did not know it came under the terrorism program.

Keep the calls coming, ... You might be saving your own home, your own car, your own property tomorrow if you do it for your neighbor today.

(MGM) was one big happy family and a little kingdom. Everything was provided for us, from singing lessons to barbells. All we had to do was inhale, exhale and be charming. I used to dread leaving the studio to go out into the real world, because to me the studio was the real world.”

(About 1943 car accident) “(MGM) was one big happy family and a little kingdom. Everything was provided for us, from singing lessons to barbells. All we had to do was inhale, exhale and be charming. I used to dread leaving the studio to go out into the real world, because to me the studio was the real world.

I’ve been there and done it all.

I never turned down anybody for an autograph. I think it`s up to the fans; it`s up to the public. No amount of photoplay magazines or layouts puts you over the public unless the public buys you.

By war`s end, I`d been in every branch of the service, all at MGM. -- VJ, commenting on the vast number of soldiers he played on film during WWII.

I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.

(MGM) was one big happy family and a little kingdom. Everything was provided for us, from singing lessons to barbells. All we had to do was inhale, exhale and be charming. I used to dread leaving the studio to go out into the real world, because to me the studio was the real world."

(on Audrey Hepburn) She`s a lady. When she participates in the Academy Awards, she makes all those starlets look like tramps. Thank you for your class, Audrey, you`re quite a lady. If anyone said anything derogatory about her, I`d push them in the river.






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