Rex Reed famous quotes

04-25-2025

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
-- Rex Reed

#Art #Paper #Toilets
A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.
-- Rex Reed

#Wise #Two #Vines
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.
-- Rex Reed

#Travel #Home #Loss
In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
-- Rex Reed

#Hollywood #Entertainment
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.
-- Rex Reed

#Hands #Way #Doe
The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.
-- Rex Reed

#People #Saws #Kind
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.
-- Rex Reed

#Careers #Comedian #Bridesmaids
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
-- Rex Reed

#Writing #Emotional #Rocks
F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.
-- Rex Reed

#Fake #Gestures #Ineptitude
In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.
-- Rex Reed

#Passion #Angel #Greatness

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