Howard Hughes Quotes
130 Howard Hughes Quotes
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I’m just a plain man.
Howard Hughes
I hope we won’t be fighting for the same pussies tonight.
Howard Hughes
You’re one hell of an emotionalist.
Howard Hughes
I’ve never been in love, Nazimova, and I never will be. I take momentary pleasures in bodies presented to me. But when that short-lived pleasure is over, I move on. I prefer to sleep alone. Love! Men who fall in love never succeed in this world. They are mere lovesick fools – nothing more.
Howard Hughes
I know the Biblical story, but what kind of costume epic are we talking here? Artsy-fartsy. Will it have sex and plenty of it?
Howard Hughes
Your film sounds exciting, and I can tell you one thing right now: I think I’m going to back it – maybe back the whole thing so that you won’t have to put up one red cent.
Howard Hughes
I’m the one who is flattered. I couldn’t believe it when Nazimova told me that one of the biggest stars in Hollywood wanted to spend the night with me.
Howard Hughes
Don’t ever mention the name of Allene to me again!
Howard Hughes
Don’t that beat all!
Howard Hughes
Surely your life can’t have covered all the plots you’ve got to film?
Howard Hughes
I’ve seen two or three of your pictures. I like the way you focus on the smallest detail. Even a doorknob in one of your pictures becomes fascinating. I’d be honoured to star in your next picture.
Howard Hughes
I won’t go nude!
Howard Hughes
Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Howard Hughes
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
Howard Hughes
I don’t want to own seventy-five percent of Toolco. I want to own one-hundred percent so I’ll not have to report to anyone. I’m leaving for New York tomorrow, and I’m going to London and Paries. When I return, I want you to have bought out my grandparents and my uncle.
Howard Hughes
Drop the Junior from my name. My old man’s dead. I’m the Senior now in the Hughes family.
Howard Hughes
When I get back to Texas, I want to see some real progress made on my requests. If I find you haven’t moved forward, please be aware that there are many other lawyers in the great State of Texas who’d love to have a rich young man like me as a client.
Howard Hughes
I’m going to make the greatest aviation movie of all time, using my own money – and you’re going to help me finance it with profits from Toolco.
Howard Hughes
I’m going to buy the bastard off. Not with the million dollars he’s demanding, but with half a million. All in cash.
Howard Hughes
You’re turning out to be an expensive bauble.
Howard Hughes
I felt like I was talking to myself in a woman’s body. That lady thinks just like I do. She’s a real cash register. She knows more about California real estate and what’s going to happen than anybody out there.
Howard Hughes
I’ve spent enough on this sh*tty film!
Howard Hughes
God took away my parents, but I’ve saddled myself with another burden.
Howard Hughes
What in hell do you mean, Noah?
Howard Hughes
Cock of the Air, the story of my life.
Howard Hughes
Tell her I’m dying, and that I have to see her at once!
Howard Hughes
I had one percent of the contracts, and now I’m getting ninety percent of the investigations.
Howard Hughes
[To one of his employees on a guard insisting on seeing his ID before letting him off the airfield] Take me back to the plane. Now you stay here for a minute. When I start to taxi down to get on the runway, you get on your motorcycle and go back to that guard. When you see me fly by, you tell that guard that I just flew over and got off this field without an ID.
Howard Hughes
Now you stay here and watch the plane and run it every day and take care of it. [Howard would then go for 2-3 months and the guy would have to sit until he came back.]
Howard Hughes
I can’t seem to get a decent manager. Every time I hire another manager, he’s worse than the one before.
Howard Hughes
You’re driving sort of reckless. There are a lot of rabbits along this road. Don’t hit one of those. If one jumps up in the front of the car, I want you to run off into the brush, but don’t hit it. And you tell all the other fellas not to hit a rabbit.
Howard Hughes
To Earl [Martyn] with my apologies for all the meals I made you miss. Earl’s [Martyn] the eatinest guy I ever knew.
Howard Hughes
I’m looking for a fella named Haldeman. ‘That’s me’ [Said Haldeman]. Have you got any money? I didn’t bring any with me. I wanta pay the cab.
Howard Hughes
Goddamn it, fellas, we’re broke.
Howard Hughes
In the case of emergency notify, Howard Hall [Lawyer], friend, Hughes Aircraft Company.
Howard Hughes
[Last written words by Hughes] I do not want to be bothered. Unless I call you, I do not want to be disturbed for any reason.
Howard Hughes
I can buy any man in the world.
Howard Hughes
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
Howard Hughes
We were working in a complete vacuum as to information based upon prior performance and prior design.
Howard Hughes
Send Chuck [Waldron] to Nassau of the Bahamas!
Howard Hughes
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