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" If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. "
Robert Osborne
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" There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!' "
Robert Osborne
Love
Movies
Christmas
" Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast. "
Robert Osborne
You
Fast
Funny
" My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies. "
Robert Osborne
Small
Time
People
" As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me. "
Robert Osborne
City
Energy
New York
" I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' "
Robert Osborne
Dinner
Performance
Light
" My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day. "
Robert Osborne
Mother
World
War
" 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
Small
Love
Business
" I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that. "
Robert Osborne
Thought
Great
Help
" 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
People
Love
Interesting
" I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart. "
Robert Osborne
Like
Shaped
Want
" For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people. "
Robert Osborne
People
Reason
Movies
" 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
Angry
Us
World
" I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor. "
Robert Osborne
Award
Movies
Think
" My age and my phone number are both unlisted. "
Robert Osborne
Both
Phone Number
Age
" I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie. "
Robert Osborne
Will
Great
Think
" 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
Me
Time
Perfect
" 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
Him
Rock
Well
" If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again. "
Robert Osborne
Dumb
Making
Again
" One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem. "
Robert Osborne
Think
Me
Black
" I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. "
Robert Osborne
Good
Movies
Many
" 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
Day
Live
Me
" When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable. "
Robert Osborne
Him
Acting
See
" The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed. "
Robert Osborne
British
Night
Done
" The weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film - so he never moved it! It's like in the old days when sound first came in and was so complicated that the camera just sat there. There are hardly any close-ups in 'Kismet,' so everything's at a bit of a distance. "
Robert Osborne
Sound
Weird
Distance
" I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis. "
Robert Osborne
Sitting
Know
Party
" When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD. "
Robert Osborne
Rest
City
You
" I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening. "
Robert Osborne
Kind
Movies
Think
" For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.' "
Robert Osborne
Award
Winner
Money
" In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people. "
Robert Osborne
Business
People
Always
" I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful. "
Robert Osborne
Imagination
You
Way