- Herself - Host: This is a story of my town. There's no town like it on the face of the earth. Because it's business is make-believe. And for over fifty years the people in this town have been getting up and going to work to to to tell the world a story. Down in that valley, some of them are busy crowning an emperor and some others are fighting the Civil War again. Somewhere else a band of cattle thieves are shooting it out with the sheriff's posse and two people who only met this morning are being married in front of an army of cameramen and crew for this - is Hollywood.
- Gary Cooper: We used to wonder when the Western story material would peter out. Seems like it never will.
- Herself - Host: Yes, there are still many great houses that belong to the glorious gilded days - before income tax.
- Herself - Host: Spectacle was Hollywood's cup of tea. From the San Francisco earthquake to William Wyler's chariot race.
- Herself - Host: Thirty five years has passed between the first 'Ben-Hur' and the one you're seeing today. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if they made another 'Ben-Hur' sometime.
- Herself - Host: [in front of her home] You know, every morning when I go to work, I thank the good Lord I'm still alive. Like everybody else in this town I go to work and come home at night. There are many kinds of homes in Hollywood. This is mine. I bought it 17 years ago, and oh, I love it. I hope to go on living in it for the rest of my life.
- Bob Hope: I think Hedda's gowns are very colorful tonight. She makes the NBC peacock look like a beatnik seagull.
- Bob Hope: I think they're going too far with this honesty thing. The other night on 'Wells Fargo' the heavies held up the stagecoach and gave back all the money from the week before.
- Bob Hope: Hedda has a fabulous fund of Hollywood knowledge. She knows whose who, who's where, where's what, and how, when, and where there's going to be some hoo-hooing. Hedda's a listener in the largest party line in the world. She has to wear those big hats to keep the secrets from leaking out.
- Gary Cooper: And of course High Noon, another western. Well, I always seem to get back to them and that's what I like to do every year or so. I like getting back into the old ten-gallon hat... yep.
- Lucille Ball: [about the Desilu Workshops] We have paid audiences, because I feel a paid audience is a more demanding audience.