Mccrea Quotes

#1. I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams

#3. I never pretended to be a great actor.

Joel McCrea

#4. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

Anita Roddick

#5. My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

Marco Tempest

#6. I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

Joel McCrea

#7. I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Joel McCrea

#8. I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

Joel McCrea

#9. I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Joel McCrea

#10. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle

John D. Barrow

#11. Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

Vladimir Putin

#12. This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

Joel McCrea

#13. After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

Joel McCrea

#14. People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

Joel McCrea

#15. I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

Joel McCrea

#16. My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Joel McCrea