If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

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• Broderick Crawford:

  I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

• Broderick Crawford:

  I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

• Broderick Crawford:

  I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

• Broderick Crawford:

  I've made my peace with myself.

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  I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.:

  I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.:

  I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his a

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  I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.:

  I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

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