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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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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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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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.
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A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.
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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?
