Rod Steiger Quotes

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• The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
• And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time,…
• I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for…
• When you're depressed, there's no calendar. There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night, there's no seconds, there's no minutes, there's nothing. You're…
• It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's…
• That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
• He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they…
• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it…
• Respecting differences is very difficult.
• That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What…
• I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what…
• Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture…
• Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.
• We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.
• He got up and there were both of us in our underwear and this kid goes through the whole thing again, all the closets, the…
• I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me…
• If you see the picture when things get exciting, he chews faster. When he really gets shocked, everything stops, including the chewing. So I worked…
• We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and…
• And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a…
• Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels…

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