Sterling Hayden Quotes

#1. I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

David Zucker

#2. I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

Marie Windsor

#3. Hayden [Sterling] told me that he was thrilled about the way he moved around the set, that wherever he would go, there would be lighting. He didn't think about his marks because they were set in the only places he could move.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#4. In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.

Sterling Hayden

#5. Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue.

Sterling Hayden

#7. In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott

Austin Kleon

#8. It's amazing how you can live without somebody your entire life and then you meet them, let them in, let them take over your every thought, and then the moment they're gone, you feel like you're fucking dying.

Claire Contreras

#9. Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Sterling Hayden

#10. Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

Paul Watson

#11. The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.

Mungo MacCallum

#12. The years thunder by.
The dreams of youth grow dim
where they lie
caked in dust on the shelves of patience.
Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then lies the answer?
In choice.
Which shall it be:
Bankruptcy of Purse
or Bankruptcy of Life?

Sterling Hayden

#13. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Sterling Hayden

#14. There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

Sterling Hayden

#15. Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Sterling Hayden

#16. Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

Sterling Hayden

#17. Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.'
'I think I saw one in a cave down the road,' I said.
That almost got a smile from her.

Richelle Mead

#18. When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

Harvey Dunn

#19. Hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.

Jeff Pinkner

#20. I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

Sterling Hayden

#21. A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Sterling Hayden