Bob Fosse was one of the greatest creative taskmasters I know; applying discipline and hard work he allowed the artists to express his creative ability.


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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR
A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON
They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT
Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT