Americans Living Quotes by Erich von Stroheim

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my…

— Erich von Stroheim

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it,…

— Erich von Stroheim

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

— Erich von Stroheim

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this…

— Erich von Stroheim

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me…

— Erich von Stroheim

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

— Erich von Stroheim

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

— Erich von Stroheim

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers…

— Erich von Stroheim

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

— Erich von Stroheim

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

Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.

— Erich von Stroheim

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who…

— Erich von Stroheim

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about…

— Erich von Stroheim

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

— Erich von Stroheim

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

— Erich von Stroheim