A Quote by Ben Hecht

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

Ben Hecht

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Ben Hecht
American - Novelist
February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964

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

Ben Hecht

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

Gracie Allen

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Mia Wasikowska

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

Katherine Ryan

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Ellen DeGeneres

Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?

Jayne Mansfield

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Jean Kerr

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

Shannon Purser

'Tangerine' was less than half the budget of 'Starlet,' and 'Starlet' was already a microbudget film. A director always wants more time, and we had a limited amount of resources.

Sean Baker

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

Ruby Dee

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Kent Haruf

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

Scarlett Johansson

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

George R. R. Martin

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Rudyard Kipling

Every old Hollywood starlet would sing in movies, there'd always be some big dance sequence. Think of Marilyn Monroe singing 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.'

Violet Chachki

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Thomas Jefferson

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