Quotes by George Cukor - Page 1

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.
George Cukor / Film Director
Handsome
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor / Film Director
Failure
Accepting
Overcoming Failure
Accept
Successes
Unless
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Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.
George Cukor / Film Director
People
Real
Talent
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You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
George Cukor / Film Director
Feet
Knows
Land
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Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
George Cukor / Film Director
Horse
Looking For Love
Love Is
Tricky
Whipping
Love Business Love Is
Carousel
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
George Cukor / Film Director
Directors
Give Me
Giving
Hundred
Scripts
Good Me Better
Director
Good Better Me
Good Script
Hundred Times
Script
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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 / Film Director
Ass
Kicks
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Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
George Cukor / Film Director
Lines
Mean
Stories
Carries
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The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
George Cukor / Film Director
Truth Is
Oscar
Wins
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But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
George Cukor / Film Director
Work I Am More
Apparent
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It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
George Cukor / Film Director
California
Imagine
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Occurred
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Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
George Cukor / Film Director
Something Special
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From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
George Cukor / Film Director
Dramatic
Easier
Point Of View
Scene
Director
Infinitely
View
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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 / Film Director
Answers
Boss
People
Reassuring
Charted
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You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
George Cukor / Film Director
Critics
Provincial
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We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.
George Cukor / Film Director
Vacation
Tired
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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 / Film Director
Life
Errors
School
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When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.
George Cukor / Film Director
Intelligent
Pinnacle
Stars
People Intelligent Intelligent People
Star
Dealing
Intelligent People
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I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
George Cukor / Film Director
Suggestions
Funny People Laugh
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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 / Film Director
Cutting
Goes On
Perseverance
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As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
George Cukor / Film Director
Prefer
Craft
Pains
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So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
George Cukor / Film Director
Directors
Meter
No Idea
Profound
Arrange
Beautifully
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People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
George Cukor / Film Director
Bland
Originals
Performers
Real Life
Life Great People
Adjusted
Screen
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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 / Film Director
Queens
Call Me
Directors
Names
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I suppose they call me a woman's 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 / Film Director
Queens
Old Days
Directed
Jack
James
Suppose
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Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
George Cukor / Film Director
Stuck
Considered
Director
Master
Jack
Pigeonhole
Pleased
Shortcut
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I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
George Cukor / Film Director
Humor
Share
Stimulation
Perform
Personalities
Rehearse
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If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
George Cukor / Film Director
Concerned
Factors
Imagine
Perception
Personalized
Principal
Settings
Best Eyes World
Arises
Professionally
Such A Thing
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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 / Film Director
Believe
Book
Heart
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