George Cukor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
-- George Cukor

#Failure #Accepting
I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
-- George Cukor

#Queens #Names #Directors
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
-- George Cukor

#Horse #Love Is #Looking For Love
You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
-- George Cukor

#Land #Feet
I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.
-- George Cukor

#Book #Believe #Heart
Don't let a kick in the ***** stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
-- George Cukor

#Ass #Kicks
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
-- George Cukor

#Giving #Directors #Scripts
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
-- George Cukor

#People #Boss #Answers
But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
-- George Cukor

#Names
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
-- George Cukor

#Mean #Stories #Lines
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
-- George Cukor

#Life #School #Errors
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
-- George Cukor

#Perseverance #Cutting #Goes On

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