Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

United States, Television Actor
July 16, 1907 – January, 20, 1990.

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.

Also known as Film Actor, Model, Screenwriter, Stage Actor

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Job
- Career
- Always
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Lord
- Now
- Brighton

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Just
- Mistaken
- Egotism
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Different
- Play
- Problem
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Girl
I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Barbara Stanwyck
- Remember
- Name
- Theater
The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Dead
- Kick
- Smells
On Marilyn Monroe: Her body has gone to her head.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Body
- Head
- Marilyn Monroe

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Vulgarity
Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Barbara Stanwyck
It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Barbara Stanwyck
Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

Barbara Stanwyck
A star is only as good as her last picture.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Star
- Picture
Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

Barbara Stanwyck
- Film
- Dialogue
- Tool

On a dull party: It was a fête worse than death.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Death
- Party
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Fake
- Truthful
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

Barbara Stanwyck
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Makeup
- Tough
- Brooklyn
The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Barbara Stanwyck
- Boy
- Learn
- Teach