Quotes by Montgomery Clift - Page 1

A man should be what he can do.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Men
Can Do
Should
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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Being Lonely
Lonely
Lying
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If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Men
Eternity
Way
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Death
Negative
Come
Blossom
Closer
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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 / Film Actor
Looks
Movie Star
Odd
Stars
Trying
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Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Forget You
Hard
Looks
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Failure
Artist
Creative Energy
Creativity
Misery
Accompanying
Vital
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I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Enough
Lazy
Wealthy
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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 / Film Actor
Juliet
Looks
Pigs
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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 / Film Actor
Dean
Heard
Profound
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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 / Film Actor
Alive
Sadness
Vulnerable
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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 / Film Actor
Pansies
Self
Want
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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 / Film Actor
Average
Ignorance
Purpose
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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 / Film Actor
Able
Given
Lions
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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 / Film Actor
Cute
Smile
Baby
Mother
Nuts
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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 / Film Actor
Energy
People
Want Something
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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 / Film Actor
Art
Glasses
Magnifying
Mirrors
Glass
Holding
Identify
Mirror
Shakespeare
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