Montgomery Clift Quotes
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?
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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Having a good and cultured family background was not enough to be successful in politics. One should live amidst farmers, till land, and tend cows and buffaloes.
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I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
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I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.
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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?
