Montgomery Clift Quotes

• Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

  Montgomery Clift

  Failure, Creativity, Artist

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• I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

  Montgomery Clift

  Self, Want, Pansies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

  Montgomery Clift

  Men, Way, Eternity

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• The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

  Montgomery Clift

  Negative

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• Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

  Montgomery Clift

  Stars, Trying, Looks

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

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

  Montgomery Clift

  Lonely, Lying, Being Lonely

  "Fictional character: Robert E. Lee Prewitt". "From Here to Eternity", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

  Montgomery Clift

  Sadness, Alive, Vulnerable

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• A man should be what he can do.

  Montgomery Clift

  Men, Should, Can Do

  "Fictional character: Robert E. Lee Prewitt". "From Here to Eternity", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

  Montgomery Clift

  Pigs, Looks, Juliet

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• The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

  Montgomery Clift

  Ignorance, Average, Purpose

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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

  Art, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

  Montgomery Clift

  Looks, Forget You, Hard

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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, Dean, Heard

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• Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

  Montgomery Clift

  Lions, Able, Given

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

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• I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

  Montgomery Clift

  Lazy, Enough, Wealthy

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• I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

  Montgomery Clift

  Cute, Mother, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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