Montgomery Clift Quotes

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Montgomery Clift

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• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

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• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

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• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

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• I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

  

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• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

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• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

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• We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

  

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• I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind

  

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• I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my director had to request me to stop laughing and come into the mood of the scene.

  

  Anushka Shetty
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• Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

  

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• It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

  

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• One of my most rewarding congressional duties is nominating future military leaders to study at America's service academies. The exceptional young men and women who receive these coveted nominations earn a top-of-the-line education and the opportunity to serve their country as a military officer.

  

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• Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

  

  Antonio Banderas
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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  

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• I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

  

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• Laughter is by definition healthy.

  

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• I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

  

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• There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

  

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• Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

  

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• It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

  

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• The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

  

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• James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Profound
  • Heard
  • Effects