Edward G. Robinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Faces #Stage #Values
Some people have youth, some have beauty â€“ I have menace.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#People #Youth #Menace
Nothing human is foreign to us
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Humans
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Art #Painting #Found
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Book #Reading #East
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human beingâ€¦ itâ€™s like taking on another personâ€™s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Mind #Actors #Honestly
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure thatâ€™s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Acting #Sitting #Pay
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Beauty #Interviews #Competing
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Uncles #Father #Black
Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Hard Work #Mean #Succeed
Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Heart #Play #Yesterday
I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
-- Edward G. Robinson

#Mirrors #Looks #Able

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