Top 33 Cukor's Quotes

#1. 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

Cukor's Quotes #17856
#2. I was a stage-struck kid.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #58940
#3. It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #114473
#4. I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #167332
#5. 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

Cukor's Quotes #281586
#6. For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.

Edward Norton

Cukor's Quotes #327223
#7. 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

Cukor's Quotes #405312
#8. It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #408109
#9. Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #426696
#10. 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

Cukor's Quotes #433433
#11. If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #586764
#12. Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #682258
#13. You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #699511
#14. 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

Cukor's Quotes #731230
#15. Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #748074
#16. 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

Cukor's Quotes #865974
#17. Be adventurous, but, of course, with some sense of reality. You shouldn't say, "There's nothing I can't do," because you know damn well there are things you can't.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #885735
#18. Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1006696
#19. If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1023402
#20. Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

Joan Crawford

Cukor's Quotes #1103378
#21. You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1279950
#22. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1311121
#23. Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Pedro Almodovar

Cukor's Quotes #1333584
#24. Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1355923
#25. You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1384764
#26. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1478486
#27. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1479084
#28. The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1491752
#29. Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1571248
#30. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1602805
#31. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1730649
#32. From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

George Cukor

Cukor's Quotes #1753098
#33. 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

Cukor's Quotes #1775027

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