Barbara Stanwyck Quotes
- Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.
- I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with…
- Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it.…
- The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.
- 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 I…
- 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 IN…
- 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 is…
- I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley…
- Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
- My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
- I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
- There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
- Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.