Glenn Ford Quotes

#1. I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.

Eleanor Powell

#2. I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Dorothy Malone

#3. You use the word "Infinity" very glibly ... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

Mike Carey

#4. I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.

Glenn Ford

#5. Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

Alice Sebold

#6. You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Bill Parcells

#7. I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.

Glenn Ford

#8. An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

Glenn Ford

#9. An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

Glenn Ford

#10. Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,

Pete Wentz

#11. He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

Glenn Ford

#12. We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

Glenn Ford

#13. When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

Glenn Ford

#14. We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

#15. Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Glenn Ford

#16. Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

Glenn Ford

#17. The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Bob Dylan

#18. If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Glenn Ford

#19. William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

Glenn Ford

#20. It feels good; my mind is going in all kind of directions. It feels good.

Glenn Ford

#21. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Charles Stanley

#22. I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

Glenn Ford

#23. Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,

Agatha Christie

#24. Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

Debbie Ford

#25. I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

Glenn Ford

#26. It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

Glenn Ford

#27. Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

Glenn Ford

#28. I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

Glenn Ford

#29. Love me like today is the last day we can see stars in the sky, let us sleep under them and throw ourselves into the oblivion and never again reach out for reality.

Akshay Vasu

#30. I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

Glenn Ford

#31. You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

Glenn Ford

#32. One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

Glenn Ford

#33. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Meg White