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 you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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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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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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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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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
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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?
