Actors and acting Quotes by Barbara Stanwyck

“You want the story of my life? Big ideas, small results.”

— Barbara Stanwyck

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

— Barbara Stanwyck

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love…

— Barbara Stanwyck

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

— Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where…

— Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

— Barbara Stanwyck

A star is only as good as her last picture.

— Barbara Stanwyck