Career in Cinema
Actors' quotes about success and career
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This section covers quotes about actors and directors' career. The focus is not only success, but also the different paths that have brought people to glory or failure. Talent, charisma, personal choices and lucky encounters, but also awards and embarrassing career moments are some of the themes that are dealt with through the stars' quotes.
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“The most important development for a girl ambitious for a screen career, is development of the mind. She should be interested in music. She should read fine books, learn to dance, and possibly study for one of the sciences.”
“Garbo had an icy look in her eyes when anyone sought to impose upon her, as, according to studio gossip, Groucho Marx discovered one day. He saw a well-known figure approaching in slacks and floppy hat, waylaid her, bent down in his famous crouch and peeked up under the brim. Two prisms of pure Baltic blue stared down at him, and he backed away...” (continue)(continue reading)
“When I was young, MGM was a very exciting place to be. I've always loved movie stars, loved movies, loved everything about them except doing them. It was so tremendously thrilling to go into the commissary for lunch. They were all there - Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr. And there was the lovely, sweet smell of the puncake...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I was not, shall we say, a go-getter. I guess I was sort of a bum.”
“Most executives at the big studios have no guts — they're so busy holding on to their jobs they never stick their necks out. Know how [Ernst] Lubitsch found out the other day that he was no longer head of Paramount?”
“I learned to act on the big screen. I was never a spear carrier. I was always the star. Always.”
“When Kipling said 'Treat failure and success the same, they are both impostors', he could not have been living in Hollywood.”
“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”
“Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy.”
“I know I'm capable of creating true art through my talent and natural artistry. But Hollywood only wants me to show off my bust.”
“I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.”
“I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.”
“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
“You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.”
“Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.”
“I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.”
“I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.”
“It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.”
“A charming woman is a busy woman.”
“The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.”
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