Erich Von Stroheim Quotes

#1. I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Erich Von Stroheim

#2. Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

#3. What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#4. Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.

Erich Von Stroheim

#5. It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

Katy Lederer

#6. Now the world runs on swiftly to great tidings. And one of men, even of Beor's house, shall indeed come, and the Girdle of Melian shall not restrain him, for doom greater than my power shall send him; and the songs that shall spring from that coming shall endure when all Middle-earth is changed.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

Erich Von Stroheim

#8. I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.

Woody Hayes

#9. I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Erich Von Stroheim

#10. I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

Leonard Susskind

#11. We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Jane Kaczmarek

#12. The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Erich Von Stroheim

#13. In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Erich Von Stroheim

#14. beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead,

Kendal Taylor

#15. Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.

Steven Furtick

#16. Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Erich Von Stroheim

#17. Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Isn't it fun to read a sentence that races ahead of itself?

Durga Chew-Bose

#19. And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

Erich Von Stroheim

#20. You feel resentful to be on the low side of the comparison, yet being on the high side brings no peace either, because there's no such thing as being better all the time. So this is a great game to give up---you win by walking away.

Deepak Chopra

#21. I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

Erich Von Stroheim

#22. It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

Erich Von Stroheim

#23. Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Erich Von Stroheim

#24. I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might lie on the other side of this place. I only knew that the before-world was gone forever.

Jeanette Winterson

#25. As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Erich Von Stroheim

#26. For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

Jose Antonio Vargas

#27. Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Erich Von Stroheim

#28. I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

Erich Von Stroheim

#29. If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Erich Von Stroheim