Fay Wray Quotes

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• Only in your imagination can you revise.
• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan…
• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That…
• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as…
• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw…
• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look…
• I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely.…
• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free…
• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who…
• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited…
• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
• They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help,…
• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He…
• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well…
• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to…
• That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover…
• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little…
• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to…
• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents…

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