Louis Jourdan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.
-- Louis Jourdan

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I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
-- Louis Jourdan

#Stars #Character #Actors
I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.
-- Louis Jourdan

#Long #Hollywood #Television
A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.
-- Louis Jourdan

#Air #Littles #Mystery

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.
The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.

Louis Jourdan famous quotes

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