Quotes About Barbara Stanwyck

#1. I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

Kirk Douglas

#2. It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

James Gray

#3. Barbara [Stanwyck] was the first woman I ever loved.

Robert Wagner

#4. I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.

Victoria Wilson

#5. I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.

Victoria Wilson

#6. Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Marcia Gay Harden

#7. Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.

Richard LaGravenese

#8. Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never took a false step.

Eve Golden

#9. Barbara [Stanwyck] and me in our only scene alone in Titanic. It wasn't much of a scene, but it sparked one of the most intense and rewarding relationships of my life.

Robert Wagner

#10. You want the story of my life?
Big ideas, small results.

Barbara Stanwyck

#11. Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

Barbara Stanwyck

#12. A star is only as good as her last picture.

Barbara Stanwyck

#13. I took Miss Stanwyck home and had a great time listening to her dish the party and everyone there. We went in for a nightcap, and I ended up spending the night. We enjoyed each other's company to the fullest.

Farley Granger

#14. Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Barbara Stanwyck

#16. Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Barbara Stanwyck

#17. [On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

Barbara Stanwyck

#18. There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Barbara Stanwyck

#19. I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Barbara Stanwyck

#20. I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

Barbara Stanwyck

#21. (Logic meet feelings. The two of you will never see eye to eye. Let the lifelong catfight commence.)

R.K. Lilley

#22. Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

Barbara Stanwyck

#23. I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Barbara Stanwyck

#24. Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

Barbara Stanwyck

#25. Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck].

Andrew Klevan

#26. Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Maxon looked down at my wrist. "Do you..." He looked up at me, seeming to rethink his question. "Do you want to dance?"
I nodded. "But I'm awful."
"We'll go slow.

Kiera Cass

#28. Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Barbara Stanwyck

#29. The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Barbara Stanwyck

#30. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Samuel Johnson

#31. It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Barbara Stanwyck

#32. To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

Donald Evans

#34. Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Barbara Stanwyck

#35. My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Barbara Stanwyck

#36. The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Barbara Stanwyck

#37. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

William Beveridge

#38. I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

Lucy Punch