Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• 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, Trying, Brooklyn

  "Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors". Book by Gary A. Yoggy, 1998.

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• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Mistake, Cases, Egotism

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

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• The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Smell, Kicks

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• 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

  Nice, Eye, Acting

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

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• The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Boys, Teach

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Jobs, Women, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Vulgarity Is, Tragedy, Comedy

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• 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

  Care, Fifteen, Lasts

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

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• 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

  Acting, Needs, Brooklyn

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

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• Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Attention, Display

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

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• A star is only as good as her last picture.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Stars, Lasts

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• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Play, Different, Way

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

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• [On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Gone, Body

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Party, Dull, Wit

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• 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

  Stars, Acting, Care

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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, Not Afraid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Lord, Brighton

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