Stroheim Quotes

#1. I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Erich Von Stroheim

#2. Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

#3. Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.

Erich Von Stroheim

#4. For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

Erich Von Stroheim

#5. I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Erich Von Stroheim

#6. The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Erich Von Stroheim

#7. In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Erich Von Stroheim

#8. There are no incurable diseases - only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs - only the lack of knowledge.

Avicenna

#9. Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Erich Von Stroheim

#10. And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

Erich Von Stroheim

#11. The house echoed, empty. Mathilde had been liberated. She had nothing to worry about now.

Lauren Groff

#12. I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

Erich Von Stroheim

#13. It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

Erich Von Stroheim

#14. Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Erich Von Stroheim

#15. If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Daniel H. Wilson

#16. The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

Robert W. Service

#17. As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Erich Von Stroheim

#18. Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Erich Von Stroheim

#19. Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Roy Schafer

#20. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

Erich Von Stroheim

#22. The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#23. If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Erich Von Stroheim

#24. Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Wes Bentley