George Cukor quotes
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“You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.”
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“I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.”
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“Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.”
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“You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.”
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“I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.”
-- George CukorSource : Gavin Lambert, George Cukor, Robert Trachtenberg (2000). “On Cukor”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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“Don't let a kick in the ***** stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.”
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“Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.”
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“It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.”
-- George Cukor -
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“But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.”
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“Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.”
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“You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.”
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“When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.”
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