Quotes About Montgomery Clift

#1. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

Sebastian Stan

#2. Montgomery Clift in I Confess?

Salman Rushdie

#3. I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

Robert De Niro

#4. Soon there would be more feet for the freezer. Oh, thank Jesus for the Internet. Thank Jesus and Mary and Joseph and God and William Gibson and Montgomery Clift and his mommy and the spider. Thank

Robert Pobi

#5. The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

Yip Harburg

#6. If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Montgomery Clift

#7. Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Montgomery Clift

#8. I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Montgomery Clift

#9. I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.

The Rocket Summer

#10. I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.

Kevin Myers

#11. Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

Montgomery Clift

#12. The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Montgomery Clift

#13. I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Tama Janowitz

#14. Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Montgomery Clift

#15. I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

Montgomery Clift

#16. Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Montgomery Clift

#17. Life takes time. Death, however, reveals itself in an instant.

Brad Meltzer

#18. Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

Montgomery Clift

#19. The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Montgomery Clift

#20. James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why,

Montgomery Clift

#21. I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

Montgomery Clift

#22. The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

Montgomery Clift

#23. I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Montgomery Clift

#24. The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary
how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Montgomery Clift

#25. Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift