Last Updated January 28, 1999

• Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. --Irving Thalberg, to Louis B. Mayer, 1936
• Scarlett is going to be a difficult and thankless role. The one I'd like to play is Rhett Butler. --Norma Shearer
• To have filmed every page of the book with the actual conversation and action would have required nearly a million feet of film, which would take a solid week to show with the projector running 24 hours a day. --Howard Dietz, 1939
• Rhett was too big an order. I didn't want any part of him...Rhett was too much for any actor to tackle in his right mind. --Clark Gable, 1939
• I arrived at the house and rang the doorbell, and there was a kind of scurrying around on the inside of the house, and I kept waiting and waiting, and finally she came out to the door and she said, "Oh! Mr. Plunkett, I'm so sorry! When I looked out and saw you here, you were wearing a blue suit, and Mama's loose, and to Mama, any man in a blue suit is a damned Yankee, so I had to put her away!" --Walter Plunkett, on his visit to a woman who had a trunk of period garment underpinnings, 1939
• Vivien, I know it's tough on you right now, particularly being away from Olivier, but when you win the Academy Award you'll forget it all. --Art Arling, Gone With the Wind camera operator, 1939
• This is one of the happiest moments of my life and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of the awards. For your kindness, it has made me feel very, very humble. And I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel. And may I say thank you and God bless you. --Hattie McDaniel, accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, 1940
• My favorite scene was the burning of Schenectady, New York, and President Grant surrendering to General Robert. E. Lee. --President Jimmy Carter, 1977