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Lee Van Cleef Quotes:

Lee Van Cleef quotes

Ocupation: Film actor

Life: January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989

Birthday: January 9

Death: December 16

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Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Eye, Pairs, Born, Spaghetti Western, Physical Appearance

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Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mean, Guy, Trying

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Hate, Thinking, Play, Tuxedos

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

source: - "Fictional character: Colonel Douglas Mortimer". "For a Few Dollars More", 1965.

Topics: One Day, Made

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

Topics: Dog, Hurt, Children

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Bullshit

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Care, Film, Institutions, International Business

You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Israel, Yugoslavia, Yards

I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Degrees

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Italian, Different, Language

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Thinking, Musical, Comedy, Forte

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

source: - Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

Topics: Would Be, Want, Film

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