Montgomery Clift Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”
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“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”
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“I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?”
-- Montgomery CliftSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.”
-- Montgomery CliftSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”
-- Montgomery CliftSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.”
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“I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.”
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“I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.”
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“If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.”
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“Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!”
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“Nobody ever lies about being lonely.”
-- Montgomery CliftSource : "Fictional character: Robert E. Lee Prewitt". "From Here to Eternity", www.imdb.com. 1953.
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“A man should be what he can do.”
-- Montgomery CliftSource : "Fictional character: Robert E. Lee Prewitt". "From Here to Eternity", www.imdb.com. 1953.
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“The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.”
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“James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,”
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“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?”
-- Montgomery Clift
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