Clift Quotes

#1. Soon there would be more feet for the freezer. Oh, thank Jesus for the Internet. Thank Jesus and Mary and Joseph and God and William Gibson and Montgomery Clift and his mommy and the spider. Thank

Robert Pobi

#2. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

Sebastian Stan

#3. When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

Monica Crowley

#4. Montgomery Clift in I Confess?

Salman Rushdie

#5. I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

Robert De Niro

#6. Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice.
Before or after the accident?

Josh Lanyon

#7. If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

Eleanor Clift

#8. If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eleanor Clift

#9. Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Eleanor Clift

#10. Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Montgomery Clift

#11. Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Eleanor Clift

#12. 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

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

Montgomery Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

#16. It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Eleanor Clift

#17. At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eleanor Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

#20. People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Eleanor Clift

#21. Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

Eleanor Clift

#22. Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

Eleanor Clift

#23. Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Eleanor Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

#25. Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Clift

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

Montgomery Clift

#27. Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

Eleanor Clift

#28. Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Charmian Clift

#29. The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

#30. You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Eleanor Clift

#31. Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Clift

#32. Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Eleanor Clift

#33. Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

Eleanor Clift

#34. Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

Eleanor Clift

#35. 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

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

Montgomery Clift

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Eleanor Clift

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Eleanor Clift

#43. 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