There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
Dalton TrumboI 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 TrumboIt will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you canโt help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.
Dalton TrumboI 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 TrumboHickory dickory dock my daddyโs nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top donโt stop a bomb or youโll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if Iโm killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.
Dalton Trumbo