Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Quotes
Rick Carter: It starts with Harold and Lillian being a loving couple. They truly were people that, together, created - art.
Danny DeVito: They were like two peas in a pod. They fed each other in a kind of a really great way.
Mel Brooks: They fed each other, not only their passion and their love, but they fed each other their creativity, their ideas.
Rick Carter: She was so supportive, and he was so appreciative, and then in turn so supportive, that you felt like you were watching the best of Hollywood, as it could be as a lifestyle.
Lillian Michelson: In our industry, in Hollywood, marriages don't seem to last very long. There are many reasons why. The fact that our marriage lasted sixty years is a big surprise, mostly to Harold and me and to our friends. [smiles]
Danny DeVito: They were like two peas in a pod. They fed each other in a kind of a really great way.
Mel Brooks: They fed each other, not only their passion and their love, but they fed each other their creativity, their ideas.
Rick Carter: She was so supportive, and he was so appreciative, and then in turn so supportive, that you felt like you were watching the best of Hollywood, as it could be as a lifestyle.
Lillian Michelson: In our industry, in Hollywood, marriages don't seem to last very long. There are many reasons why. The fact that our marriage lasted sixty years is a big surprise, mostly to Harold and me and to our friends. [smiles]
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Lillian Michelson: [referring to Tom Waits]And he just liked to sit there and just talk about his life. He had this gravelly voice that just was fascinating. Everything that came out of him sounded as if it should be a police confession.
Movie: Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
[last lines] Lillian Michelson: The challenges that one has to overcome, I think is, making the other person feel that you are really vital to the partner's life, in every sense, and that - there's no enemy there. Even if you fight, there's no enemy there. We were a team. [closes book]
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Lillian Michelson: When Harold first came out to California, and was setting up our foundation for our life, when he said, 'Come on out, I have an apartment for you', I had a few days on the train from Miami to think about what I was getting into. [train whistle]
Lillian Michelson: And I'm thinking, what am I doing? I'm going to an unknown state, a man I don't know - I just know his sister. Is this a reason to get married? Is this a reason to leave everything? I had two days and two nights of not sleeping, just sitting and wondering.
Lillian Michelson: I never felt that I was worthy of all this love. So that's the crux of it. [interviewer: What?]
Lillian Michelson: I guess because I was an orphan and not the center of the universe, from a very early age, and had to fight - everything. All my life's circumstances had to be fought against, and resisted, and made to fit *me* as a person. So I never felt that I was really worthy of anybody's sustained and consistent love. I was thrilled by it, but secretly I never thought I would - I deserved it. That's why I loved the poems so much. 'Oh, another year and he still loves me!' [laughs]
Lillian Michelson: And I'm thinking, what am I doing? I'm going to an unknown state, a man I don't know - I just know his sister. Is this a reason to get married? Is this a reason to leave everything? I had two days and two nights of not sleeping, just sitting and wondering.
Lillian Michelson: I never felt that I was worthy of all this love. So that's the crux of it. [interviewer: What?]
Lillian Michelson: I guess because I was an orphan and not the center of the universe, from a very early age, and had to fight - everything. All my life's circumstances had to be fought against, and resisted, and made to fit *me* as a person. So I never felt that I was really worthy of anybody's sustained and consistent love. I was thrilled by it, but secretly I never thought I would - I deserved it. That's why I loved the poems so much. 'Oh, another year and he still loves me!' [laughs]
Movie: Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story