Montgomery Clift famous quotes

03-28-2025

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Artist #Creative #Energy
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Negative
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

#Cute #Mother #Baby
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Stars #Trying #Looks
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

#Able #Lions #Given
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

#Self #Want #Pansies
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

#People #Doe #Needs
I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Lazy #Enough #Wealthy
If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Men #Way
Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
-- Montgomery Clift

#Pigs #Looks #Juliet
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Lonely #Lying #Being Lonely
A man should be what he can do.
-- Montgomery Clift

#Men #Should
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

#Art #Mirrors #Glasses
James Deanâ€™s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I donâ€™t know why,
-- Montgomery Clift

#Profound #Dean #Instant
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
-- Montgomery Clift

#Sadness #Alive #Vulnerable

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