Montgomery Clift Quotes
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
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We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
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I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
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My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'
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Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.
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History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.
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You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
