George Cukor Quotes

• You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

  George Cukor

  Failure, Accepting, Overcoming Failure

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• You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

  George Cukor

  Land, Feet, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

  George Cukor

  Real, People, Talent

  Gavin Lambert, George Cukor, Robert Trachtenberg (2000). “On Cukor”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

  George Cukor

  Ass, Kicks

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• Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

  George Cukor

  Giving, Directors, Scripts

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• Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

  George Cukor

  Horse, Love Is, Looking For Love

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• You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

  George Cukor

  Life, School, Errors

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• I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

  George Cukor

  Queens, Names, Directors

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• I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.

  George Cukor

  Book, Believe, Heart

  Gavin Lambert, George Cukor, Robert Trachtenberg (2000). “On Cukor”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

  George Cukor

  Mean, Stories, Lines

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• When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

  George Cukor

  Perseverance, Cutting, Goes On

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• It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

  George Cukor

  People, Boss, Answers

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• But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

  George Cukor

  Names

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