121 Quotes by Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio