Montgomery Clift Quotes

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• I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what…
• Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
• The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor…
• Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
• If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
• I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
• The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
• I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers…
• Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
• A man should be what he can do.
• Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to…
• James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,
• Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

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