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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them. -- Phil Silvers
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. -- Meryl Streep
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful. -- Jonny Greenwood
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.' -- Tony Kushner
I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor. -- Dick Cavett
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. -- Wesley Morris
Whoa... don't go all Kramer on me! -- Glenn Beck
It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer) -- Alex Scarrow
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified. -- JoBeth Williams
Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged. -- Michael R. Burch
Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart. -- Bon Scott
Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare. -- Aziz Ansari
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.' -- Wentworth Miller
Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never. -- Chris Pine
My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.' -- Dean Wareham
Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way. -- Kevin Sessums
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. -- Kevin Sessums
Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him. -- Kevin Sessums
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me. -- Kevin Sessums
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. -- Kevin Sessums
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us. -- Kevin Sessums
When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David. -- Kevin Sessums
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name. -- Kevin Sessums
[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning." -- Kevin Sessums
I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out. -- Kevin Sessums
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people? -- Kevin Sessums
Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center... -- Kevin Sessums
I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer. -- Kevin Sessums
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed. -- Kevin Sessums
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson! -- Erich Segal
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta were in it. I was one of the leads, and I thought this was it. It got shelved for two years, and then it was in theaters maybe a week. After that, I adopted a philosophy of, 'Hope for the best, expect the worst.' -- Justin Chon

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