I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due – she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did. Robert Osborne Read Quote
I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they’re successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around. Robert Osborne Read Quote
Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing. Robert Osborne Read Quote
There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight. Robert Osborne Read Quote
I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that’s what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business. Robert Osborne Read Quote
The Hollywood Reporter’ was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper. Robert Osborne Read Quote
I’d worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that. Robert Osborne Read Quote
I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry. Robert Osborne Read Quote
Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me. Robert Osborne Read Quote
I went to California at a perfect time… when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to… me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them. Robert Osborne Read Quote
