Dalton Trumbo Quotes
"Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all."
- Dalton Trumbo
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Act, Being)
"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."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Love, Truth, People, Now, Taxes, Theory)
"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."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Brothers, Will)
"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Class)
"I fought fire with oil."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Fire, Oil)
"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."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Day, Will)
"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Business, Government, Virtue, Democracy, Dishonesty, Job, Responsibility)
"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Army)
"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Marriage, Earth, Fool)
"Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Life, Democracy, Man, Now, Talking)
"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Trust, People, Enemies, Public, State)
"The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Love, Fighting, Living, Worth)
"The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress."
- Dalton Trumbo