Erich von Stroheim Quotes

15 quotes in 301 categories

• It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those…
• Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my…
• I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one…
• As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
• Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in…
• Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
• I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
• I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
• In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
• I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
• If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is…
• Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or…
• The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next…
• For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

Browse Erich von Stroheim Quotes by Category