Montgomery Clift Quotes

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.

Montgomery Clift

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• Situation
• Glasses
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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

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• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

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• Being queen is overrated.

  

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• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

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• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

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• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

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• I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

  

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• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

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• I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

  

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• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

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• I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

  

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• But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

  

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• I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.

  

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• I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

  

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• Isn't she lovely made from love?

  

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• Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.

  

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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.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Audience
  • Situation
  • Glasses