Erich von Stroheim famous quotes

03-30-2025

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Hollywood #Lasts
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

#Drama #Responsibility #Home
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Girl #Spiritual #Quality
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Hair #Long #Enough
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Atmosphere #Attention #Deals
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Hair #Individuality #Looks
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

#Stupid #White #People
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

#Girl #Minutes #Found
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

#Girl #Baby #Years
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

#Self #Rumor #Sincerity
Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
-- Erich von Stroheim

#Sex #Real #Heart
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

#Past #Men #Vienna

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