RC Longworth Quotes

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him.

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.

Never underestimate the staying power of a bad idea.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.